Indiana (Signet Classics) - Softcover

Sand, George

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9780451525727: Indiana (Signet Classics)

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0451525728 ISBN 13: 9780451525727

Publisher: Penguin, 1993

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A new translation of the irreverent and bohemian nineteenth-century French writer's first novel concerns the liaison between an intelligent woman trapped in a brutal marriage and a worldly young nobleman. Reprint.

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About the Author:

George Sand is the pen name of Amantine Lucile Aurore Dupin, Baroness Dudevant, a 19th century French novelist and memoirist. Sand is best known for her novels Indiana, L?lia, and Consuelo, and for her memoir A Winter in Majorca, in which she reflects on her time on the island with Chopin in 1838-39. A champion of the poor and working classes, Sand was an early socialist who published her own newspaper using a workers co-operative and scorned gender conventions by wearing men s clothing and smoking tobacco in public. George Sand died in France in 1876.

Synopsis:

George Sand's violently romantic novel echoes her own life and portrays a beautiful Creole woman who abandons her husband for a handsome young lover.

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