George Sand

Author(s): Martine Reid; Gretchen van Slyke (Translator)

Biography/Memoir

The romantic and rebellious novelist George Sand, born in 1804 as Amantine Lucile Aurore Dupin, remains one of France's most infamous and beloved literary figures. Thanks to a peerless translation by Gretchen van Slyke, Martine Reid's acclaimed biography of Sand is now available in English.

Drawing on recent French and English biographies of Sand as well as her novels, plays, autobiographical texts, and correspondence, Reid creates the most complete portrait possible of a writer who was both celebrated and vilified. Reid contextualizes Sand within the literature of the nineteenth century, unfolds the meaning and importance of her chosen pen name, and pays careful attention to Sand's political, artistic, and scientific expressions and interests. The result is a candid, even-handed, and illuminating representation of a remarkable woman in remarkable times.

With its clear, flowing language and impeccable scholarship, this Ernest Montus s Award-winning biography of the author of La Petite Fadette and A Winter in Majorca will be of great interest to those specializing in Sand and nineteenth-century literature--and to readers everywhere.

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General Fields

  • : 9780271081069
  • : Pennsylvania State University Press
  • : Pennsylvania State University Press
  • : 0.385554
  • : May 2018
  • : 1.03 Inches X 5 Inches X 8 Inches
  • : books

Special Fields

  • : Martine Reid; Gretchen van Slyke (Translator)
  • : Hardback
  • : English
  • : 280