Les Romans de George Sand

26 primary works

Horace

by George Sand

Published 19 October 1995

Les maitres mosaistes

by George Sand

Published 1 January 2010

Valentine

by George Sand

Published 15 March 2000

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.

Le secretaire intime

by George Sand

Published 1 March 2015

Leone Leoni

by George Sand

Published 15 March 2000

George Sand's "Leone Leoni" reverses the "Abbe Prevost's Manon Lescaut" and gives Manon's helpless amoral character to a man, Leoni, Juliette, the girl he seduces, becomes the exponent of undying, endless, forgiving love.

Le peche de M. Antoine

by George Sand

Published 6 March 2015

Elle et lui

by George Sand

Published 21 January 2009

Jeanne

by George Sand

Published 5 March 2015

Indiana

by George Sand

Published 1 December 1975

The first novel that George Sand wrote without a collaborator, "Indiana" is not only a romance but also a powerful plea for change in the inequitable French marriage laws of the time, for better education for women, and for a new attitude to their position in society. Naomi Schor's introduction explores attitudes to Sand in her own time as well as more recent feminist responses, and it examines the powerful and complex patterns of imagery and relationships in the novel.

Mauprat

by George Sand

Published 1 January 1979

A love story of humanization and transformation, "Mauprat" is the tale of Bernard, an orphan raised to violence by the brutish and villainous Mauprat clan, and of his passion for his cousin Edmee. Compelling Edmee to agree to become his wife, Bernard must none the less submit to her guidance and tuition as she endeavours to make of him a worthy husband. Deeply engaged with Rousseau's pedagogical treatise "Emile", and with contemporary debate concerning inherited and acquired traits and tendencies, Mauprat is an expression of Sand's Utopian vision of a relationship governed by free choice and equality. Naomi Schor's introduction explores these and other aspects of the novel.

La Comtesse de Rudolstadt I

by George Sand

Published 24 February 2015

Consuelo II

by George Sand

Published 26 February 2015

Consuelo III

by George Sand

Published 25 February 2015

Le dernier amour, suivi de, Les dames vertes

by George Sand

Published 25 February 2015

Le meunier d' Angibault

by George Sand

Published 27 February 2015

Teverino

by George Sand

Published 3 March 2012

Le chateau des Desertes

by George Sand

Published 3 March 2015

La Mare au Diable

by George Sand

Published 15 October 1997

Nanon

by George Sand

Published 22 June 2005

Lelia

by George Sand

Published 26 August 1978

Regarded as one of Sand's best novels, Lelia is an important document in the evolution of women's consciousness. Published in 1833, when Sand was 29, it stunned Victorians by advocating the same standard of morality for men and women and by suggesting that both the prostitute and the married woman were slaves to male desire. Sand also questioned monogamy, fidelity, and monastic celibacy. She later made an unsuccessful attempt to revise the book and to expunge its despair and skepticism.

Although Sand wrote copiously, until recently only a handful of her books were available in English. This first English translation of Lelia is an excellent rendering, capturing the raptures, the mysticism, and the nineteenth-century flavor ot its eternally fascinating subject.