Indiana (Oxford World's Classics) - Softcover

Sand, George; Raphael, Sylvia

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0199540489 ISBN 13: 9780199540488

Publisher: Oxford University Press, 2008

Synopsis

The first novel that George Sand wrote without a collaborator, this is not only a vivid romance, but also an impassioned plea for change in the inequitable French marriage laws of the time, and for a new view of women. It tells the story of a beautiful and innocent young woman, married at sixteen to a much older man. She falls in love with her handsome, frivolous neighbor, but discovers too late that his love is quite different from her own. This new translation, the first since 1900, does full justice to the passion and conviction of Sand's writing, and the introduction fully explores the response to Sand in her own time as well as contemporary feminist treatments.

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About the Author

Sylvia Raphael has translated Balzac's Eugenie Grandet (1990) and Cousin Bette (1992) for World's Classics. Naomi Schor is a well-known expert in both Romance Languages/Literature and in European feminism. She is William Hanes Wannamaker Professor of Romance Studies and Literature at Duke University.

Edition details

• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Publication date: 2008
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0199540489
• ISBN 13: 9780199540488
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 271