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A costume drama set in the 19th century, it centers on the young orphan Lamiel as she rises from poverty into high society under the guidance of a doctor, who lives vicariously through her. She eventually marries a bankrupt comte, but falls for a thief who breaks into her bedroom one night.

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 Indiana, a beautiful and innocent French Creole girl, 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...

"Viewing the "intellectual" as the key figure in the modern French novel and as the ailing prophet of an entire epoch, Victor Brombert here describes him dramatically as "the hero and the victim of a tortured era which has experienced politics as tragedy, freedom as necessity and where history has assumed the urgent voice of a fatum." Studying representative protagonists of such writers as Emile Zola, Anatole France, Roger Martin du Gard, Louis Guilloux,...

Examines the historical background and analyzes individual authors and their writings, including Stendhal, Balzac, Sand, Baudelaire, and Flaubert.