Naked in the Marketplace: The Lives of George Sand

by Benita Eisler

Book Overview

Who was George Sand? She was the first famous Frenchwoman celebrated throughout Europe who wasn't either a saint or a king's mistress. She was also the first woman in Europe to become a best-selling novelist. But her fame is inseparable from her notoriety: the scandal of leaving a husband and child, setting up in Paris with an eighteen-year-old lover, liaisons and friendships with men of talent and even genius: de Musset, Chopin, Balzac, and Flaubert...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1582433496
• ISBN13: 9781582433493
• Release Date: October 2006
• Publisher: Counterpoint LLC
• Length: 320 Pages
• Weight: 1.30 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.5" x 9.3"