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Author
Language
English
Description
"George Sand was a 19th century French novelist known not only for her novels but even more for her scandalous behavior. After leaving her estranged husband, Sand moved to Paris where she wrote, wore men's clothing, smoked cigars, and had love affairs with famous men and an actress named Marie. In an era of incredible artistic talent, Sand was the most famous female writer of her time. Her lovers and friends included Frederic Chopin, Gustave Flaubert,...
Author
Publisher
Kennikat Press
Pub. Date
[1972]
Language
English
Description
In the whole of French literary history, there is, perhaps, no subject of such inexhaustible and modern interest as that of George Sand. Of what use is literary history? It is not only a kind of museum, in which a few masterpieces are preserved for the pleasure of beholders. It is this certainly, but it is still more than this. Fine books are, before anything else, living works. They not only have lived, but they continue to live. They live within...
Author
Publisher
Scribner
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Formats
Description
"An unforgettable debut novel from an award-winning writer: a lively, daring ghost story about a dead teen girl who falls in love with a female writer who has no idea she exists. In 1473, fourteen-year-old Blanca dies in childbirth in a hilltop monastery in Mallorca. Nearly four hundred years later, when George Sand, her two children, and her lover Frederic Chopin arrive in the village, Blanca is still there: a spirited, funny, righteous ghost, she's...
11) George Sand
Author
Publisher
The Pennsylvania State University Press
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
"A biography of the celebrated nineteenth-century author George Sand. Examines her public image, her relationships with her husband, lovers, and children, and her lifelong political commitment"--Provided by publisher.
Author
Publisher
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Pub. Date
[2009]
Language
English
Description
Maria Jameson is having an affair--a passionate, life-changing affair. She asks: Is it possible to love two men at once? For answers, she reaches across the centuries to George Sand, the maverick French novelist who took many lovers.
Publisher
Mill Creek Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
"Professor Joseph Elsner takes his protege Frederic Chopin to Paris after Chopin insults the new Russian-installed governor and must flee the country. There he eventually comes under the influence of novelist George Sand and rises to prominence in the music world."--