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A novel of of love between the classes, as uncultured Bernard loves the beautiful Edmee de Mauprat, who feels she cannot return his love because she is superior to him. Thus she begins to educate and culture him. A classic of French literature.

From an original review when the book was published in 1870:"Jealousy, or Teverino, one of the best of George Sand's fictions, T. B. Peterson & Brothers, of Philadelphia, have brought out in a faithful and spirited translation, with a memoir of the author by Oliver S. Leland. There is great ideality and high imagination in this most fascinating romance, the actual heroine of which is a country girl, beautiful as an angel and pure as a pearl, p...

This is a reproduction of a book published before 1923. This book may have occasional imperfections such as missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. that were either part of the original artifact, or were introduced by the scanning process. We believe this work is culturally important, and despite the imperfections, have elected to bring it back into print as part of our continuing commitment to the preservation of printed w...

Dorothy Wynne Zimmerman is a professor emeritus of English at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln.

Thus begins this heartwarming tale about eleven-year-old Clopinet, his fears, and how he overcomes them.Afraid of the dark, of heights, of thunder, and even of falling asleep, Clopinet is an unusually sensitive boy. A dreamer and bird lover, he is very different from all the other boys in his farming village. His unusual nature worries his parents and, fearing that he will not be able to earn a living from the land, they apprentice him to a ta...

George Sand was the pseudonym of Amandine Aurore Lucie Dupin, Baronne Dudevant. She was an extremely prolific (over 70 novels) French writer of the 19th century, and she raised many eyebrows with her scandalous affairs with several important figures. Like most of her other novels, The Gallant Lords of Bois-Dor is a highly romantic and moralistic work. Translated from the French by Steven Clovis.

In The Marquise, George Sand reacts against the tradition of the libertine novels of the 19th century by making the Marquise the narrator of the story, thus giving her control of the action. Sand deconstructs the myth of the seducer by making Lelio, the hero, the subject of the Marquise's desire. Pauline's two female protagonists represent diametrically opposed 19th-century female roles. Pauline is trapped by the bourgeois strictures of the ti...

Sand takes the timeless theme of a younger woman in love with an older man to create a romance with a feminist twist. Her vivacious heroine is both the author's ideal of female emancipation and a subtle attack on the other Marianne, the French Republic's convention-bound Muse.

This novel reverses the Abbe Prevost's Manon Lescaut and gives Manon's helplessly amoral character to a man, Leoni. Juliette, the girl he seduces, becomes the exponent of undying, endless, forgiving love. The setting is the demimonde of Venice, and the is thick with sinister figures whose influence drags the miserable lovers down.

The author's first novel, based on her own experience. A romantic young woman is trapped in a cold marriage and finds a lover.

These selections from George Sand's journals form an integrated whole and show Sand as a woman, lover, mother, artist, politician, chatelaine, and friend. Sand's journal writing is thought by many to be her most expressive and natural, here the artist's most complex and interesting character is revealed: George Sand herself.

A neglected novel by a major writer of the 19th century.

Best known as a novelist, George Sand (1804-1876) was also arguably the most successful woman dramatist in history. More than twenty of her plays were staged in major Paris theaters to widespread popular and critical acclaim. Translated here for the first time into English are her two most famous full-length comedies, The Marquis de Villemer and Francoise, as well as her three major one-act plays, The Paving Stone, The Japanese Lily, and A Goo...

A novel of of love between the classes, as uncultured Bernard loves the beautiful Edmee de Mauprat, who feels she cannot return his love because she is superior to him. Thus she begins to educate and culture him. A classic of French literature.

Im November 1838 reisen George Sand und Frédéric Chopin nach Mallorca. Erst nach längerer Suche findet das Liebespaar Unterkunft - im verlassenen Kloster von Valldemosa. Hier, in der Abgeschiedenheit der Landschaft, fernab von Bevölkerung und Komfort, genießen die beiden das Leben und finden zur Ruhe. George Sands Beschreibung ihrer Erfahrungen und Eindrücke von der Insel ist ein bewegendes und stimmungsvolles Porträt, das die Besonderheiten v...

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