Indiana - Signet Classic Author:George Sand 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 he... more »r 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.« less
george sand is phenomenal in all she writes... this was her first book... reading her stuff is a must... hey, she was friends with Chopin, Balzac, Delacroix, Heine, Liszt and Flaubert