Marianne
Marianne is an important fictional formulation of Sand's thinking on the role of women and the nature of democracy. This edition includes a long biographical preface which quotes extensively from her correspondences.
Marianne is an important fictional formulation of Sand's thinking on the role of women and the nature of democracy. This edition includes a long biographical preface which quotes extensively from her correspondences.
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Format: paperback
ISBN:
9780786705382 (0786705388)
ASIN: 786705388
Publish date: February 26th 1998
Publisher: Carroll & Graf
Pages no: 176
Edition language: English
It's not often you can whip through a classic in one day. Marianne is really a novella rather than a novel. I have to say, my positive rating of this is probably more for George Sand, who's biography makes up the first half of the book, than for Marianne itself, which is a sweet but disposable littl...
If you don't know, George Sand is the very male pen name of the very female Aurore Dupin de Franceuil, born in Paris in 1804. To live independently and write novels, she defied convention and whatever else needed defying. For this she was much slandered and scorned, even by the alleged avant-garde o...
If you don't know, George Sand is the very male pen name of the very female Aurore Dupin de Franceuil, born in Paris in 1804. To live independently and write novels, she defied convention and whatever else needed defying. For this she was much slandered and scorned, even by the alleged avant-garde o...