Indiana

"I know I'm a slave and you're the lord. The law of the land has made you my master. You can tie up my body, bind my hands, control my actions. You have the right of the stronger, and society confirms you in it. But over my will, Monsieur, you have no power." In an abstract sense, this is a very......more

Cute, fit, rich, aristocratic and more than a little dizzy, Raymon is in a serious fix – I think you gentlemen will understand this one very easily – he’s fallen for a 19 year old ladies maid – yes! - and not only that, this ladies maid is a Creole and she has brown arms! And it’s reasonable to conc......more

"Pero la costumbre adquirida con otras mujeres, otorgaba a sus palabras esa especie de poder de convicción ante el que la ingenua Indiana se abandonaba, sin comprender que todo aquello no había sido inventado para ella. Normalmente, y las mujeres lo saben muy bien, un hombre que habla de amor con ci......more

George Sand, seudónimo de Amantine, fue una de las escritoras más reconocidas del romanticismo francés. Una figura sumamente controvertida y peculiar en la época, pues Sand era baronesa pero vestía con ropa masculina, fumaba en público, tuvo múltiples amantes y se codeaba con grandes autores de la l......more

In her two prefaces, that of 1832, when Indiana first released ― George Sand was 28―, and that of 1848, when it was republished, she explains why and how she wrote this novel. She had already a great experience of life, for such a young woman, at the beginning of the 19th century, and above all, she......more