Letters of George Sand

"What a brave man she was," said novelist Ivan Turgenev, "and what a good woman." French writer and feminist Amandine Aurore Lucile Dupin, Baroness Dudevant, akaGEORGE SAND(1804-1876), smoked in public and dressed like a man, carried on scandalous romantic affairs and was an intimate ofChopinand Flaubert...and wrote some of the most intriguing works of 19th-century French literature: novels, plays, autobiographies, literary criticism, and political treatises. Thisthree-volume1886 collection...