This collection of essays highlights the importance of water imagery in the work of the renowned nineteenth-century French female author George Sand. It provides a complex picture of the polyvalent presence of water in Sand’s work that encompasses life and death imagery, ecocriticism, fluid kinship, homosocial ties, and artistic creativity. Drawing on Gaston Bachelard’s premise that the substance of water carries deep meaning, the articles in this volume explore the element of water and its symbolism in a selection of George Sand’s writings and art work, from her most famous novels (Indiana, Lélia, and Consuelo) to her later works, short stories, plays, and autobiographical writing (Teverino, Jean de la Roche, Les Maîtres sonneurs, La Reine Coax, L’Homme de neige, Le Drac, Un Hiver à Majorque, Marianne), and dendrite paintings.

One of the most notable novelists of the Romantic era, Amantine Lucile Aurore Dupin, best known by her pen name George Sand, achieved fame for her ‘rustic’ novels, drawing inspiration from her lifelong love of the countryside and sympathy for the poor. The familiar theme of her work was love transcending the obstacles of convention and class, all set against the backdrop of her beloved Berry countryside. She was 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 mid-nineteenth century. This comprehensive eBook presents Sand’s collected works, with numerous illustrations, many rare texts appearing in digital print for the first time, informative introductions and the usual Delphi bonus material. (Version 1) * Beautifully illustrated with images relating to Sand’s life and works * Concise introductions to the novels and other texts * 24 novels, with individual contents tables * Features many rare novels appearing for the first time in digital publishing * Images of how the books were first published, giving your eReader a taste of the original texts * Excellent formatting of the texts * Many translations are fully illustrated with their original artwork * Includes Sand’s correspondence with fellow author Gustave Flaubert * Special criticism section, with four works evaluating Sand’s contribution to world literature * Features two biographies – discover Sand’s literary life * Ordering of texts into chronological order and genres Please visit www.delphiclassics.com to browse through our range of exciting titles CONTENTS: The Novels Indiana (1832) Valentine (1832) Lavinia (1833) Leone Leoni (1833) Mauprat (1837) The Last of the Aldinis (1837) The Countess of Rudolstadt (1843) Teverino (1845) The Sin of M. Antoine (1845) The Miller of Angibault (1845) The Devil’s Pool (1846) Francois the Waif (1847) Fadette (1849) The Bagpipers (1853) The Gallant Lords of Bois-Doré (1857) She and He (1859) The Snow Man (1859) Marquis de Villemer (1860) The Germandre Family (1861) Antonia (1863) A Rolling Stone (1870) Handsome Lawrence (1870) Nanon (1872) The Tower of Percemont (1876) The Letters The George Sand-Gustave Flaubert Letters (1921) The Criticism Dedication to ‘Letters of Two Brides’ (1840) by Honoré de Balzac Obsèques de George Sand (1876) by Victor Hugo George Sand (1877) by Henry James George Sand (1902) by Pearl Mary Teresa Craigie The Biographies Memoir of George Sand (1902) by J. Alfred Burgan George Sand (1911) by Francis Storr Please visit www.delphiclassics.com to browse through our range of exciting titles or to purchase this eBook as a Parts Edition of individual eBooks