Valentine by George Sand

"Valentine" by George Sand is a novel published in 1832. It tells the story of Valentine, an aristocratic woman who falls in love with Benedict, a peasant farmer. Their forbidden romance confronts the rigid social barriers of Restoration-period France. The novel explores marriage, class inequality, women's limited education, and family loyalty. Set in Sand's beloved Black Valley region, it examines the hypocrisy of social norms without offering easy solutions, allowing these tensions to unfold naturally. (This is an automatically generated summary.)

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Author Sand, George, 1804-1876
Title Valentine
Note Wikipedia page about this book: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Valentine_(novel) Wikipedia page about this book: fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Valentine_(roman)
Credits Produced by Mireille Harmelin, Renald Levesque and the
Online Distributed Proofreaders Europe at
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de France (BnF/Gallica)
Reading Level Reading ease score: 76.5 (7th grade). Fairly easy to read.
Language French
LoC Class PQ: Language and Literatures: Romance literatures: French, Italian, Spanish, Portuguese
Subject French fiction -- 19th century
Category Text
eBook-No. 17251
Release Date
Last Update Dec 13, 2020
Copyright Public domain in the USA.
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