Indiana / George Sand ; translated by Sylvia Raphael ; with an introduction by Naomi Schor.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Sand, George, 1804-1876.

Series:

Oxford world's classics (Oxford University Press)

Oxford world's classics

Standardized Title:

Indiana. English

Language:

English

French

Subjects (All):

Marriage--Fiction.

Marriage.

Women--France--Fiction.

Women.

France.

Man-woman relationships--Fiction.

Man-woman relationships.

France--Social life and customs--19th century--Fiction.

Manners and customs.

Genre:

Fiction.

Physical Description:

xxviii, 278 pages ; 20 cm.

Place of Publication:

Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2000.

Summary:

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.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages [xxiv]-xxv) and index.

ISBN:

0192837974

OCLC:

44604578