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A story based on a traditional French tale, which tells of a lame boy whose father sneers at his dream of becoming a sailor, and sends him to work as a tailor's apprentice, but Clopinet escapes to find the sea, where a whole new world is revealed to him. Illustrated in black and white.
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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.
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- PublisherKestrel Books
- Publication date1982
- ISBN 10 0722657706
- ISBN 13 9780722657706
- BindingHardcover
- Edition number1
- Number of pages128
- IllustratorHilary Abrahams
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