Its symbolist exploration of young love... is endearingly eccentric

The Times

Cracked geodes. Circular waterfalls. Eskimos on sleds crossing polar seas. An extraordinary visual experience in the form of an impossible love story that consistently defies its own description. A meditation on beauty told through a fascination with form

- Janice Kerbel, Frieze

What a brave man she was, and what a good woman

Ivan Turgenev

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Her voice can be intimate, unpretentious, gentle, sympathetic, and disarmingly honest

New York Times

A strange and compelling tale of love and a fantastical crystal world, by the great classic author 'Her voice can be intimate, unpretentious, gentle, sympathetic, and disarmingly honest' New York Times While working in a small geological museum, Alexis Hartz meets his cousin Laura, who has discovered a way to enter a geode. Travelling through a vast and glittering landscape of brilliant crystals, Alexis falls passionately in love with Laura. But when they return to the ordinary world, only friendship remains. He yearns for the perfect world of the crystals, and returning there becomes a perilous obsession. But is the crystal world as real as it seems, or is his mind succumbing to its dark powers? First written in 1864, this little known work by George Sand is a fantastical novel in the truest sense of the word.
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A strange and compelling tale of love and a powerful crystal world, by the great classic author

Produktdetaljer

ISBN
9781782274148
Publisert
2018-03-01
Utgiver
Pushkin Press
Høyde
198 mm
Bredde
129 mm
Aldersnivå
G, 01
Språk
Product language
Engelsk
Format
Product format
Heftet
Antall sider
128

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Forfatter

Biografisk notat

George Sand was born Amandine-Aurore Lucile Dupin in Paris in 1804 and brought up at Nohant, her grandmother's country home. In 1822 Sand married Baron Casimir Dudevant but left him and their disastrous marriage to seek a better life in Paris. Her most famous novels portray the struggles of women against social constraints, especially marriage. Legendary for her numerous love affairs with such prominent figures as Prosper Merimee, Alfred de Musset and Frederic Chopin, Sand was also a celebrated writer whose works influenced Dostoevsky, Tolstoy, Flaubert and Proust.