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Title: George Sand
Author: REID MARTINE
Format: HARDCOVER
Publication date: 15/05/2018
Imprint: PENN STATE
Price: $55.00
Publishing status: Active
The romantic and rebellious novelist George Sand, born in 1804 as Amantine Lucile Aurore Dupin, remains one of Frances most infamous and beloved literary figures. Thanks to a peerless translation by Gretchen van Slyke, Martine Reids 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 Sands 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 Montuss Awardwinning 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 literatureand to readers everywhere.
ISBN: 9780271081069
Pages: 280