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Woman's Version of the Faust Legend: The "Seven Strings of the Lyre" by George Sand
Woman's Version of the Faust Legend The Seven Strings of the Lyre by George Sand Author:George Sand George Sand's The Seven Strings of the Lyre is a philosophical play written in poetic prose and never intended for perfomance on stage. Completed in 1838 during the early stages of Sand's romantic involvement with Frédéric Chopin, it is one of the very few treatments of the Faust legend by a woman. George Kennedy offers the first English trans... more »lation of this work, along with an introduction that places the play in its philosophical and literary context.« less