George Sand A Woman's Life Writ Large

Name: George Sand A Woman's Life Writ Large
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ISBN: 9780679779186

ISBN-10: 0679779183

ISBN-13: 9780679779186

Edition: N/A

Authors: Belinda Jack

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The author of classic novels including Indiana and Lélia, George Sand is perhaps better known for her unconventional life. Belinda Jack unravels the many facets of this writer who counted among her friends and lovers everyone from Chopin and Liszt to Dostoyevsky and Elizabeth Barrett Browning. Sand defied convention by writing novels; but the fact that she was a cigar-smoking cross-dresser who took male and female lovers, declared marriage “barbarous,” and championed socialism made her a legend. Allowing Sand’s voice to be heard, but wise enough to question it, Jack presents a riveting study of a woman raised by her aristocratic grandmother and her prostitute mother, and whose life and work…

Book details

List price: $18.95
Publisher: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
Publication date: 12/4/2001
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 432
Size: 5.19" wide x 7.94" long x 1.13" tall
Weight: 0.770
Language: English