| Edition |
First American edition. |
| Description |
xiv, 395 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 25 cm |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 359-380) and index. |
| Contents |
Auguries -- Man of action and a passionate woman -- Adventure real and imagined -- Two rival mothers -- Still water -- Fear of freedom and the lure of suicide -- Reasonable marriage -- Reality of marriage and the precarious suspension of disbelief -- Call of the wild -- Travesty of marriage - Petit Jules -- Becoming Sand -- Paris from the provinces -- Exquisite dissection -- Exploring another self -- Musset and madness -- Pagello, Paris, and politics -- Maurice's notorious mother -- Form the real to the sublime -- Creativity and compromise -- History past, present, and future -- Eden -- Son and lover -- Communion. |
| Subject |
Sand, George, 1804-1876.
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Women novelists, French -- 19th century -- Biography.
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Novelists, French -- 19th century -- Biography.
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| ISBN |
0679455019 |
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