Mauprat by George Sand

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Mauprat by George Sand. 1977 first Da Capo paperback edition, 324 pages. George Sand was the pseudonym of the genius French author Amantine-Lucile-Aurore Dupin, born in 1804, who w rote more than seventy works. She started a socialist and activist newspaper when women had few rights, and remained a journalist and diarist while also writing fiction. She scandalized those around her by wearing pants and smoking cigarettes. Mauprat was Sand's third novel and depicts a heroine trying to Pygmalion her seemingly unredeemable cousin. Condition: Good used copy, sticker on front cover, owner name on endpaper. "For me his strange destiny was a philosophical problem I longed to solve." Show more