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Valvèdre

• Author: George Sand First Published: 2017-12-07
• Genres: Literature Reads: 1
• Words: 93804 Status: Completed
• Score: 5.0 (0)

An astonishingly modern novel, George Sand’s Valvèdre questions traditional Romantic representations of women and exposes the disastrous consequences such notions of femininity have for both male and female characters at a time when divorce was illegal. This first English translation by Françoise Massardier-Kenney shows Sand’s control of style and her understanding of the major tensions of early m...