Consuelo, a plain young woman with a divine operatic voice and a heart of sterling integrity, rises from her lowly zingarella (gypsy) beginnings to become a prima donna in Venice. At the same time, many romantic choices are laid before her.
George Sand, crivain franaise, est le pseudonyme d'Amantine Aurore Lucile Dupin (1804- 1876), plus tard baronne Dudevant. Elle crivit des romans, des nouvelles, des contes, des pices de th[tre, une autobiographie, des critiques littraires et des textes politiques. Elle est ne Paris, mais a pass la plus grande partie de son enfance Nohant dans l ...
George Sand recounts the story of her 1838 winter in Majorca, a winter she passed in the company of Frederick Chopin. She describes the natural beauties of Majorca as well as the rumblings of approaching war.
The Country Waif (Francoise le Champi) is the second of the three pastoral novels which rank along with George Sand's autobiographical writing as her finest work. Although simple in themselves, these tales have behind them much of the complex experience of her extraordinary life. As Mrs. Zimmerman writes in the introduction, they reflect Sand's ...
The first English-language edition of a major work by George Sand. Translated by the winner of the 1994 BOMC-PEN Translation Award. "A courageous work, nowadays unjustly neglected". -- Renee Winegarten "Sand develops her most advanced political, social and sexual views in this classic work". -- Feminist Bookstore News
Set against the backdrop of France's industrial revolution, this 1859 novel by the controversial, passionately socialist George Sand follows the fortunes of the dynamic, young metal smith Etienne Lavoute, known as Sept-Epees (or Seven Blades), as he strives to free himself not from the working class but from the woes imposed upon it by grasping ...
In a prolific career that produced more than 80 novels, this novella represents the final work published during George Sand's lifetime, when she was 72. It is a romance that begins timidly between a shy but wealthy country girl who wishes to further her education, and Pierre, who has worked as a tutor and promises to help her select reading ...
A collection of four stories by George Sand that had their origin in tales she made up to entertain her granddaughters, Aurore and Gabrielle--touching on many of the classic problems of growing up.
George Sand, crivain franaise, est le pseudonyme d'Amantine Aurore Lucile Dupin (1804-1876), plus tard baronne Dudevant. Elle crivit des romans, des nouvelles, des contes, des pices de thtre, une autobiographie, des critiques littraires et des textes politiques. Elle est ne Paris, mais a pass la plus grande partie de son enfance Nohant dans l ...
George Sand was the pseudonym of the French novelist and feminist Amantine-Lucile-Aurore Dupin, later Baroness Dudevant (1804-1876). She was known well in far reaches of the world, and her social practices, her writings and her beliefs prompted much commentary, often by other luminaries in the world of arts and letters. Her first published novel, ...
In coastal France, a lame eleven-year-old boy named Clopinet is sold into apprenticeship to a cruel tailor, escapes, and overcomes his fear of everything in life through his love of the birds around him.
Isadora Duncan (1877-1927) captivated the American, European, and Soviet cultural scenes with her innovative modern dance and liberated life-style. Published just after her death, "My Life" is a classic and engrossing account of this remarkable visionary and feminist who defied the world's conventions, reinvented dance, and inspired many great ...
This is one of George Sand's late great rural novels, dealing wit life among the provincial poor, where customs were already changing when she wrote it.
Consuelo, now an operatic diva at the court of Frederick II of Prussia, and suspected by many to be his mistress, leads a chaste, uninspired, and dreary life at court. Her vocal performances, though still brilliant, have lost their divine inspiration, for she grieves in secret the mysterious loss of her occult love.
Many critics find in this novel an autobiographical depiction of George Sand's liaison with Frédéric Chopin. The title character is a worldly performer of opera who is also the mother of four children who have three different fathers. Prince Karol is a moody an rigidly aristocratic man and is shocked when he discovers he has fallen in love with ...
"Gabriel" (1839) is a romantic and adventurous play about a woman's struggle for freedom and love. Raised as a Renaissance prince, Gabriel gives up her entitlement and assumes a feminine identity to satisfy the demands of her male lover. A prescient "protofeminist" dramatic treatment of gender, the play makes a passionate plea for female equality ...
A love story of humanization and transformation, "Mauprat" is the tale of Bernard, an orphan raised to violence by the brutish and villainous Mauprat clan, and of his passion for his cousin Edmee. Compelling Edmee to agree to become his wife, Bernard must none the less submit to her guidance and tuition as she endeavours to make of him a worthy ...
George Sand, crivain franaise, est le pseudonyme d'Amantine Aurore Lucile Dupin (1804-1876), plus tard baronne Dudevant. Elle crivit des romans, des nouvelles, des contes, des pices de thtre, une autobiographie, des critiques littraires et des textes politiques. Elle est ne Paris, mais a pass la plus grande partie de son enfance Nohant dans l ...
In a new translation The Devil's Pool is one of a group of pastoral novels inspired by the countryside of Nohant in Berry, where George Sand grew up. These novels are simple stories of country life, in which Sand records local customs and manners, depicting a timeless idyll, unaffected by the outside world and the political events of the time. ...
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