Name: Teverino (in French)
SKU: 59546644
Price: 704.00 TWD
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Author: George Sand
ISBN: 9781518774362

Type

Physical Book

Author

George Sand

Publisher

Createspace

Language

French

Pages

162

Format

Paperback

Dimensions

22.9x15.2x0.9 cm

Weight

0.23 kg.

ISBN13

9781518774362

Synopsis "Teverino (in French)"

Excerpt from Teverino: A Romance One fine morning, in the first years of the Restoration, the aristocratic convent of the "Dames Anglaises," which at that period monopolized the education of the daughters of all the patrician families of Paris, opened its doors to a new, young, and most interesting pensionnaire. The new-comer, who was scarcely fourteen years old, had just arrived from Berry: her religious education seemed to have been much neglected, for the good sisters remarked with a holy horror, that she made the sign of the cross with a philosophical awkwardness, denoting a total want of practice. She was, nevertheless, a fine and noble-looking-girl: her features, very decided and strongly marked, breathed an air of native pride: she bore, without the least embarrassment, those glances, which, at the convent as at the college, are never spared to freshly arrived provincials, and in her every movement there was such an impress of rustic brusquerie, that in a few days her noble companions, sportively, but unanimously had given her the nickname of "the little boy." About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

George Sand

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George Sand, nacida Amantine-Lucile-Aurore Dupin en 1804 en París, fue una escritora francesa emblemática del Romanticismo. Adoptó un nombre masculino para firmar sus obras y vistió ropa de hombre, desafiando las convenciones sociales de su época y ganándose un lugar en un mundo literario dominado por hombres.

Creció en la finca familiar de Nohant, donde desarrolló un profundo amor por la vida rural, que se reflejaría en muchas de sus novelas. Después de un matrimonio que terminó en separación, se trasladó a París para dedicarse por completo a la escritura. Su primera novela importante, Indiana, abordó temas como la opresión femenina y la búsqueda de libertad, marcando el inicio de una prolífica carrera.

A lo largo de su vida escribió decenas de novelas, ensayos, memorias y cartas, convirtiéndose en una de las voces más influyentes y polémicas del siglo XIX. Además de su obra literaria, George Sand fue una activista comprometida con causas sociales, como los derechos de las mujeres y la justicia social.

Su casa en Nohant fue un centro cultural donde acogió a importantes artistas y escritores de su tiempo. George Sand falleció en 1876, dejando un legado duradero como pionera de la literatura y la lucha por la igualdad.

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