Valentine - Softcover

George Sand (author)

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0915864592 ISBN 13: 9780915864591

Publisher: Chicago Review Press, 2000

Synopsis

This is Sand's second novel. Like Indiana, her first, it explores the relationship between men and women. Valentine, an aristocratic girl, falls desperately in love with Benedict, the son of a poor farmer. Again, like Indiana, this novel challenges preconceived masculine assumptions about woman's role in society. In loving Benedict, Valentine rebels against her family and her class.

About this title

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," " Lelia," 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."

About this edition

• Publisher: Chicago Review Press
• Publication date: 2000
• ISBN 10: 0915864592
• ISBN 13: 9780915864591
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 354