George Sand

This volume is one of the English Original Novels Mega-Collection (1,600 volumes in total), gathering English translations of works by the French writer George Sand (1804–1876). Born Amantine Aurore Lucile Dupin, George Sand was a leading figure of nineteenth-century French Romantic literature and one of the earliest European writers to turn her attention to the lives of workers and peasants. She rose to fame in 1832 with the novel Indiana, and over her lifetime produced more than two hundred works, including novels, plays, essays, and memoirs, as well as the twenty-volume autobiography Story of My Life and a vast correspondence. Victor Hugo once said she held "a unique place in this age." Her writing falls roughly into four periods: the early passionate novels such as Indiana and Lélia, which portray women's predicaments in love and their claims to independence; the middle period's turn to social questions, with works tinged with utopian socialism such as The Journeyman Joiner, The Miller of Angibault, and Consuelo; the later years of country retreat, with pastoral novels such as The Devil's Pool, Little Fadette, and François the Waif, depicting nature and plain human feeling; and works drawn from history and art, such as The Mosaic Worker. This is an English-language collection edition; the exact contents and edition details should be confirmed against the actual pages of the book.