Mauprat (World's Classics) - Softcover

Sand, George

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0192824341 ISBN 13: 9780192824349

Publisher: Oxford Paperbacks, 1997

Synopsis

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 husband. Deeply engaged with Rousseau's pedagogical treatise "Emile", and with contemporary debate concerning inherited and acquired traits and tendencies, Mauprat is an expression of Sand's Utopian vision of a relationship governed by free choice and equality. Naomi Schor's introduction explores these and other aspects of the novel.

About this title

About the Author:

Sylvia Raphael's translations for World's Classics include Balzac's Cousin Bette and Eugenie Grandet and Sand's Indiana. She died in 1996.

About this edition

• Publisher: Oxford Paperbacks
• Publication date: 1997
• ISBN 10: 0192824341
• ISBN 13: 9780192824349
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 330
• Editor: Schor Naomi