George Sand: A Woman's Life Writ Large
Language: English
Published by Alfred A. Knopf, New York, 2000
- First Edition
- Hardcover
- Used
Seller: THE PRINTED GARDEN, ABA, MPIBA, SANDY, UT, U.S.A.THE PRINTED GARDEN, ABA, MPIBA
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Condition: Used
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Octavo. Ochre colored boards quarterbound in a dark brown cloth backstrip with shiny gilt lettering on the spine. Book has light bumping at the tail of the spine. White endpapers. Binding is straight and tight. Previous owner has marked a couple passages with tiny light pink dots at the end of the lines - pages are otherwise clean, white, and crisp. 395 pages. Dust Jacket - has a nearly unnoticable trace of rubbing at the tail of the spine and at the very tips of the upper outside corners. Faint evidence of handling visible on the rear cover. Not perfect, but book has a very nice overall appearance. Sand was a bestselling author in France during her time, rivaling even the sales numbers for Victor Hugo.
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- Title
- George Sand: A Woman's Life Writ Large
- Author
- Jack, Belinda (subject George Sand a.k.a. Aurore Dupin)
- Publisher
- Alfred A. Knopf, New York
- Publication year
- 2000
- Condition
- NF
- Dust jacket
- NF
- Binding
- Hard Cover
- Language
- English
- ISBN 10
- 0679455019
- ISBN 13
- 9780679455011
- Edition
- First Edition, First Printing.
- Seller catalogs
- Biography & Memoir, Literary Nonfiction
Born Aurore Dupin in 1804, Sand became France's best-selling writer, rivaled in her day only by Victor Hugo--yet she was known as much for her excessive life as for her plays, stories, and enduring novels like Indiana, Lélia, and Mauprat.
The daughter of a prostitute and an aristocrat, great-granddaughter of the King of Poland, Sand grew up acutely aware of social injustice and prejudice. Convent-educated, she became a mischievous, flamboyant rebel at the center of French intellectual and artistic life. Her intimate circle included Liszt, Delacroix, Balzac, and Flaubert. She was a magnet for some of the greatest writers of her era: Henry James, Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Dostoyevsky, and Turgenev. Her long, troubled romance with Chopin was just one of her many affairs with both men and women. A believer in the equality of the sexes, she thought marriage "a barbarous institution"; a socialist, she acted as Minister of Propaganda after the Revolution of 1848. Legendary for her free life, cigar-smoking, and scandalous cross-dressing, she also spun a web of fraught relationships with her grandmother, mother, daughter, and beloved granddaughter.
No one quite matches George Sand--she remains unique, powerful, vital, and mysterious. In this rich new biography, Belinda Jack gives the full flavor of Sand's personality and delves beneath the surface of her life and her age,
showing how her art both reflected and shaped her life. Here is an unforgettable portrait of a remarkable writer--and an extraordinary woman.
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