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Leone Leoni (Paperback)
George Sand; Translated by George Burnham Ives
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Indiana (Paperback)
George Sand; Contributions by Mint Editions
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Indiana, a young woman stuck in a loveless marriage, is seduced by
a charming neighbor who is not as polished and pure as he appears.
She embarks on a journey to find real love, leading to an
unexpected discovery about the object of her affection. Indiana is
a young woman from French Louisiana who's married to the much older
Colonel Delmare. Their union is strict and often oppressive,
leaving her unfulfilled. Indiana shares their home with her cousin
Ralph and her loyal maid, Noun. One evening they encounter a
handsome young man, Raymon de Ramiere, who becomes interested in
Indiana. Yet, prior to their meeting, Raymon had already seduced
Noun who is pregnant with his child. This complicated dynamic
forces Indiana to decide what she really wants: passion or
stability? Indiana is a bold commentary on the institution of
marriage in France. It examines the implied gender roles and
responsibilities pushed upon women. Sand champions the need for
passion and true love, regardless of social convention. With an
eye-catching new cover, and professionally typeset manuscript, this
edition of Indiana is both modern and readable.
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The Devil's Pool (Paperback)
George Sand; Translated by George B. Ives; Edited by David Allen
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"Valentine would come out of her oratory intensely excited, with
her nerves on edge and the blood flowing hotly through her veins.
At such times Benedict's glances and words laid waste her heart
like a stream of molten lava. If he had been hypocritical or adroit
enough to present adultery to her in a mystic light, Valentine
would have been ruined with a prayer on her lips..." Deep in George
Sand's own natal countryside of Berri in central France, Valentine
de Raimbault, daughter of the chateau, and Benedict Lhery, cousin
and adopted son of one of its tenant farmers, meet and fall
headlong in love. Though they are very young, she 18 and he 22,
both are already engaged to be married: he to his cousin, a
beautiful and imperious girl who sees him as a stepping stone to
comfort and security, and she to a dissolute diplomat who needs her
wealth to pay his gigantic gambling debts. They must both first
realize the extraordinary power of their feelings, and then enter a
terrible battle with relatives, expectations and conventions, where
their difference in rank proves a massive obstacle. Their union
will indeed be hard won, if it can be. As they fight to understand
and fulfil their love, the world bends, breaks and remakes itself
around them many times. In the uncertainty, one of them unwillingly
marries; the other rejects passionately the idea of a life united
to any but their loved one. Lives are lost, arguments are
precipitated into great conflicts, scores are settled and new ones
created, intrigues are pursued, misunderstandings are promoted,
long-held secrets are finally revealed. It is only when a chance
mistake proves disastrously final that their tragic love finds its
whole meaning, that the pattern they are creating in their lives
fulfils its extraordinary design. This intensely passionate novel,
the author's second, was first published in 1832. George Sand
(Amandine Dupin, afterwards Baroness Dudevant) was born in Paris in
1804. She was raised largely by her grandmother at the family
estate of Nohant in Berri, a region of central France. After
rebelling an unsuccessful marriage, she had affairs with authors
Prosper Merimee and Alfred de Musset, composer Frederic Chopin, and
the actress Marie Dorval, among others. Her output of acclaimed
novels, plays, travel sketches and autobiography was prodigious,
beginning in the late 1820s and continuing until her death in 1876.
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Gabriel (Paperback)
Kathleen Robin Hart; George Sand
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R832
Discovery Miles 8 320
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"An admirable ruse, indeed To inspire in me the horror of
females, only to throw it in my face and say: but this is what you
are."
The handsome, heroic heir to a vast estate, raised as a man to
follow a man's pursuits and to despise women, is devastated to
learn at the age of seventeen that he is in fact a she. Gabriel
courageously refuses to give up her male privileges, and her tragic
struggle to work and fight and love in all the ways she knows how
offers a window into the obstacles faced by George Sand, the
prolific intellectual woman whom the popular press portrayed as a
promiscuous, cigar-smoking oddity in trousers. "Strange that the
most virile talent of our time should be a woman's " exclaimed a
reviewer in 1838.
Kathleen Robin Hart's introduction contextualizes the drama,
discussing its relation to the theater of Sand's day, the
sentimental tradition, the subversive workings of carnival and
masquerade, and the vein of literary androgyny in Romantic
works.
Kathleen Robin Hart's introduction contextualizes the drama,
discussing its relation to the theater of Sand's day, the
sentimental tradition, the subversive workings of carnival and
masquerade, and the vein of literary androgyny in Romantic
works.
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Mauprat (Paperback)
George Sand; Translated by Mary W. Artois
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R513
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Urbain, the Marquis de Villemer is the younger brother of Duke
d'Aleria, and is eager to clear his family's debt to ensure his
mother's happiness. The siblings have drastically different views
on the purpose of money and marriage. A marchioness is eager to
marry off her two sons: Duke d'Aleria and Urbain, the Marquis de
Villemer. The former is the eldest, a charming playboy whose
gambling addiction has saddled the family with debt. Urbain is the
younger, more responsible son, who's willing to sacrifice his
happiness for his mother's security. The men interact with several
women, including Caroline, a secretary and companion to their
mother. She is pulled into a strange world that hinges on marriage
arrangements and social capital. The Marquis de Villemer is a
nineteenth century novel that embodies popular elements of that
time. It's fueled by class disparity, mismatched romance and
financial strain. It also highlights family legacy and the desire
to keep up appearances. With an eye-catching new cover, and
professionally typeset manuscript, this edition of The Marquis de
Villmer is both modern and readable.
Urbain, the Marquis de Villemer is the younger brother of Duke
d’Aleria, and is eager to clear his family’s debt to ensure his
mother’s happiness. The siblings have drastically different views
on the purpose of money and marriage. A marchioness is eager to
marry off her two sons: Duke d’Aleria and Urbain, the Marquis de
Villemer. The former is the eldest, a charming playboy whose
gambling addiction has saddled the family with debt. Urbain is the
younger, more responsible son, who’s willing to sacrifice his
happiness for his mother’s security. The men interact with
several women, including Caroline, a secretary and companion to
their mother. She is pulled into a strange world that hinges on
marriage arrangements and social capital. The Marquis de Villemer
is a nineteenth century novel that embodies popular elements of
that time. It’s fueled by class disparity, mismatched romance and
financial strain. It also highlights family legacy and the desire
to keep up appearances. With an eye-catching new cover, and
professionally typeset manuscript, this edition of The Marquis de
Villmer is both modern and readable.
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The Devil's Pool (Paperback)
George Sand; Contributions by Mint Editions
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R208
R178
Discovery Miles 1 780
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Two years after his wife's death, Germain is encouraged to move on
and find a new woman and home to accommodate his three growing
children. He travels to visit a single woman who is eager to start
a new family. Following his daughter's death, Pere Maurice has
provided constant support for his son-in-law Germain. But after two
years, he pushes him to find a new wife. Germain is a young man
with three children in need of a mother. Maurice sends him to visit
the daughter of a friend, who is also widowed and interested in
remarrying. Germain reluctantly agrees, taking his son and the
teenager Mary, who is seeking employment. The trip proves to be an
eye-opening experience for the duo who form an unexpected bond.
Similar to Sand's previous work, Indiana, The Devil's Pool examines
the obligations of marriage. The story illustrates how duty and
perception take priority over love and kindness. It's a dichotomy
that continues to present itself, regardless of one's social or
political status. With an eye-catching new cover, and
professionally typeset manuscript, this edition of The Devil's Pool
is both modern and readable.
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Correspondencia
Gustave Flaubert, George Sand
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R524
Discovery Miles 5 240
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Regarded as one of Sand's best novels, Lelia is an important
document in the evolution of women's consciousness. Published in
1833, when Sand was 29, it stunned Victorians by advocating the
same standard of morality for men and women and by suggesting that
both the prostitute and the married woman were slaves to male
desire. Sand also questioned monogamy, fidelity, and monastic
celibacy. She later made an unsuccessful attempt to revise the book
and to expunge its despair and skepticism.
Although Sand wrote copiously, until recently only a handful of
her books were available in English. This first English translation
of Lelia is an excellent rendering, capturing the raptures, the
mysticism, and the nineteenth-century flavor ot its eternally
fascinating subject."
The first translation of The Countess von Rudolstadt in more than a
century brings to contemporary readers one of George Sand's most
ambitious and engaging novels, hailed by many scholars of French
literature as her masterpiece. Consuelo, or the Countess von
Rudolstadt, born the penniless daughter of a Spanish gypsy, is
transformed into an opera star by the great maestro Porpora. Her
peregrinations throughout Europe (especially Vienna, Berlin, and
the Bohemian forest), become a quest undertaken on a number of
levels: as a singer, as a woman, and as an unwilling subject of
alienation and oppression. Sand's heroine moves through a
mid-eighteenth-century Europe where absolute rulers mingle with
Enlightenment philosophers and gender-bending members of secret
societies plot moral and political revolution. As the old order
breaks down, she undergoes a series of grueling initiations into
radically redefined notions of marriage and social organization. In
a novel by equal measures philosophical and lurid, nothing is what
it seems. Written some fifty years after the French Revolution, the
book taps into many of the political and religious currents that
contributed to that social upheaval-and aims to channel their
potential for future change. Fed by Sand's rich imagination and
bold aspirations for social reform, The Countess von Rudolstadt is
a sinuous novel of initiation, continuing the coming of age tale of
the titular heroine of Sand's earlier Consuelo and drawing on such
diverse models as Ann Radcliffe's Gothic tales and Goethe's Wilhelm
Meister.
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La Ville Noire
George Sand
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La Ville Noire
George Sand
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R2,011
R1,883
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Constance Verrier
George Sand
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R1,484
R1,403
Discovery Miles 14 030
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