Club de Lecture in Palo Alto: George Sand: Indiana, 1832

We meet on the third Thursday of every month at 7:00pm  in person at Emerson School in Palo Alto. Participants are welcome to choose the format they prefer each month. This month's selection is:  George Sand: Indiana, 1832

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.

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