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4%OFFGeorge Sand - The Country Waif: (Francois le Champi) - 9780803258501 - V9780803258501
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The Country Waif: (Francois le Champi)

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Description for The Country Waif: (Francois le Champi) Paperback. Set in the countryside of the author's native province of Berry, this book tells the story of Francois, an orphan boy placed in a rural foster home, and Madeline, the miller's wife who befriends him. Translator(s): Collis, E. Num Pages: 181 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: FC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 203 x 159 x 12. Weight in Grams: 248.

The Country Waif (Françoise le Champi) is the second of the three pastoral novels which rank along with George Sand's autobiographical writing as her finest work. Although simple in themselves, these tales have behind them much of the complex experience of her extraordinary life. As Mrs. Zimmerman writes in the introduction, they reflect Sand's "youthful romanticism, her later championing of the working classes, and her desire to record in fiction that was both poetic and factual the lives of the people and the region she knew best."

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As well as examining the setting, language, and narrative mode of the novel, the introduction looks at Sand's life, in part from the feminist perspective, with attention to the sociopolitical background of the post-Napoleonic era, when Aurore Dudevant felt impelled to rebel against her status as a country wife and to become George Sand.

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Product Details

Format
Paperback
Publication date
1977
Publisher
University of Nebraska Press
Condition
New
Number of Pages
181
Place of Publication
Lincoln, United States
ISBN
9780803258501
SKU
V9780803258501
Shipping Time
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Ref
99-1

About George Sand
Dorothy Wynne Zimmerman is a professor emeritus of English at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln.

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