Fadette
by George Sand
Published by Thomas Y. Crowell and Company
New York, NY, U.S.A
Printed 1896
Gilt and Embossed cover and spine
Illustrated front piece
Amantine Lucile Aurore Dupin (1804 – 1876), best known by her pen name George Sand, was a French novelist, memoirist, and journalist. One of the most popular writers in Europe in her lifetime, being more renowned than both Victor Hugo and Honoré de Balzac in England in the 1830s and 1840s, Sand is recognized as one of the most notable writers of the European Romantic era.
In this novel, Sand returns to the setting of her native Berry in rural France and tells the story of love transcending the hurdles of class and convention. She found her true form in her rustic novels, which drew their chief inspiration from her lifelong love of the countryside and sympathy for the poor. In La Mare au diable (1846), François le Champi (1848), and La Petite Fadette (1849), the familiar theme of George Sand’s work—love transcending the obstacles of convention and class—in the familiar setting of the Berry countryside, regained pride of place. These rustic tales are probably her finest works. She subsequently produced a series of novels and plays of impeccable morality and conservatism.
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