Indiana (1832)

by George Sand

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I didn't enjoy reading this book very much but I did enjoy the pondering and reflection that has resulted. The used of allegory was excellent and the portrait of life for a married woman in the early 1800s was portrayed achingly. I also enjoyed the Creole threads of the story. So - lots of interesting things going on but it was inconsistently delivered. Translation issue? Maybe? There was one section in particular that droned on about the political climate of France and, holy hell, it sucked. to be fair, I had recently read [b:War and Peace|290979|War and Peace|Leo Tolstoy|http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1320544190s/290979.jpg|4912783] and [b:Les Misérables|2410774|Les Misérables|Victor Hugo|http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1320480043s/2410774.jpg|3208463] right before INDIANA, and Hugo and Tolstoy write political asides like nobody's business...so in contrast, Sand was lacking. (

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BookishJoJo | Apr 10, 2013 |

Engrossing early novel by George Sand (

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On a chilly wet autumn evening, in a little manor house in Brie, three people, lost in thought, were solemnly watching the embers burn in the fireplace and the hands make their way slowly round the clock.

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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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