1804-1876

"George Sand was a 19th century French novelist known not only for her novels but even more for her scandalous behavior. After leaving her estranged husband, Sand moved to Paris where she wrote, wore men's clothing, smoked cigars, and had love affairs with famous men and an actress named Marie. In an era of incredible artistic talent, Sand was the most famous female writer of her time. Her lovers and friends included Frederic Chopin, Gustave Flaubert, Franz Liszt, Eugene Delacroix, Victor Hugo, Elizabeth Barrett Browning, and more. In a major departure, Elizabeth Berg has created a gorgeous novel about the life of George Sand, written in luminous prose, with exquisite insight into the heart and mind of a woman who was considered the most passionate and gifted genius of her time"--.

A biography of the nineteenth-century French author who defied many social conventions in order to live and write as she wanted.

Examines the life of Polish composer Frederic Chopin, focusing on his final years in Paris where he had lived since the age of twenty-one, and discussing his relationship with author George Sand, his rise and fall in popularity, and his illness and funeral.