Indiana
George Sand
Trans. by George Burnham Ives

Category: Fiction/Translation (French)
Format: Trade paperback, 327pp, 5 1/2 x 8 1/2, 4 Illus.
ISBN: 0-915864-57-6
Price: $16.95

About the Book

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

Leone Leoni
George Sand
Trans. by George Burnham Ives

Category: Fiction/Translation (French)
Format: Trade paperback, 175pp, 5 1/2 x 8 1/2
ISBN: 0-915864-61-4
Price: $15.95

About the Book

This novel reverses the Abbè 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 plot is thick with sinister figures whose influence drags the miserable lovers down.

The Intimate Journal
George Sand
Ed. and Trans. by Marie Jenney Howe

Category: Fiction/Translation (French)
Format: Trade paperback, 208pp, 5 x 7 1/2
ISBN: 0-915864-50-9
Price: $15.95

About the Book

Three collections of George Sand's writings: her journal to Alfred de Musset; the Piffoël journal, composed of conversations between her masculine and feminine selves; and a scrapbook the dates of which overlap the two journals. This last compilation includes personal letters, reflections and mementoes that were dear to this remarkable woman.

The Marquise & Pauline: Two Novellas
George Sand
Translated by Sylvie Charron & Sue Huseman

Category: Fiction/Translation (French)
Format: Hardcover, 200pp, 5 x 8
ISBN: 0-89733-449-3
Price: $23.00

About the Book

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 Lèlio, 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 time, while her friend, Laurence, an actress and intellectual, is independent both financially and emotionally.

Valentine
George Sand
Trans. by George Burnham Ives

Category: Fiction/Translation (French)
Format: Trade paperback, 336pp, 5 1/2 x 8 1/2
ISBN: 0-915864-59-2
Price: $16.95

About the Book

This is Sand's second novel. Like Indiana, her first, it explores the relationship between men and women. Valentine, an aristocratic girl, falls desperately in love with Benedict, the son of a poor farmer. Again, like Indiana, this novel challenges preconceived masculine assumptions about woman's role in society. In loving Benedict, Valentine rebels against her family and her class.

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