IFL Classics Book Club: Indiana by George Sand
Indiana by George Sand (271 pages)
The first novel that George Sand wrote without a collaborator, this is not only a vivid romance, but also an
impassioned plea for change in the inequitable French marriage laws of the time, and for a new view of women. It
tells the story of a beautiful and innocent young woman, married at sixteen to a much older man. She falls in love
with her handsome, frivolous neighbor, but discovers too late that his love is quite different from her own. This new
translation, the first since 1900, does full justice to the passion and conviction of Sand's writing, and the introduction
fully explores the response to Sand in her own time as well as contemporary feminist treatments.
