As you open the book, you immidiatly got cought up in the world of Consuelo, you begin to worry for her, be happy for her, and cry when she is sad. George Sand wrote a book of a music genious, a perfect girl Consuelo, and she really succeded. It was also a great book to use in the School Certificate in New Zealand, 'cause it is very ditailed, and the characters are well diveloped. As I read it I wished the story would never end!

Do you like music, romance, history and adventure? If you answer yes, then Consuelo is definitely a book for you. This novel is an inspiration story about essence and purpose of true art, and a life call of true artist. This is a stirring story of talented yang singer life, whose character is filled with love for freedom, sincerity, musical genius and true generosity of the heart. The story unfolds in the midst of factual historical events that take place in real places with actual historical individuals. Due to such historic setting the reader can see the full picture of life in XVIII century Europe and the art development of that time. The novel is a beautiful mix of historic and cultural facts with life and romance of a yang woman, who step by step discovers herself through true purpose of art. It is a trully amazing book! Once you start to read it you can't put it down!

This is one of the best translations I've ever read, and it is so nice to have another of George Sand's works available in English. The story is surprisingly modern, very readable, with really appealing, human, simple characters. If you've heard of Sand but never read anything of hers, start with this book!

This book surprised me. It was nothing like what I expected it to be. It was a good book and I enjoyed reading it wich was not something i expected to be able to say. The stories were interesting and intreaging. Goerge Sand is nothing less then a literary genuis, her stories reminded me of when I was younger. In her Story "What Flowers Say" I could definitly identify with the young girl since when I was that age I too wondered what the flowers talked about when I wasn't there. I would recomend this book to people of all ages it is simply a great book, writen by a truly awesome writer.

The authors, Shannon & Torlen, continue to produce excellent instruction in Stained Glass, this their 3rd book. The photographs of their copper foil and leaded panels and sandblasted projects are of the highest quality. Choice of glass colour and texture in their designs make the projects quite remarkable, I refer in particular to the standing room divider. I recommend this book to all stained glass hobbyists and artists as I do to my students. I look forward to the release of their next book.

This is a biography of a woman writer who's real name was Aurore Dupin, who lived in Paris in the 19th century -- Since Amazon didn't provide an editorial review, here's the description from the back of the book to help you decide if this book is for you: "Hailed in her lifetime as the first female genius of any country or age -- even while condemned as the pipe-smoking, pants-wearing mistress of Frederic Chopin, Alfred de Musset, and numerous others -- George Sand, born Aurore Dupin, both captivated and scandalized nineteenth-century Paris. Foreshadowing the women's movement by more than a century, she shook the foundations of European literature and culture with her consuming desire to discover her identity through her art. A provacative, daring and truly gifted writer, George Sand emerges as large as life in this splendidly realized, lusty biography -- an insightful narrative as romantic, as intense, as meomentous as the life that inspired it."

This is a truly fantastic book. It is written in George Sand's fourth period of creativity and emphasizes on what it means to be a man. G. Sand stresses on the qualities of human nature, but she does not criticize them on the surface. She shows what would happen if people accept them.

It is worth reading for anyone who feels they do not know what they want to do with their lives!

When I was a young boy, this book was my most favorite. I read it again and again with a touching feeling. This main theme is a characteristic love of little Fadette. The story turns over at certain pivotal plot, which is composed of the conversation between her and her boyfriend at the quiet riverside in the woods. Her speaking is excellent despite of her surface. Her kind conclusion causes the deep sympathy resembling the love. Rather, the theme of her speaking might be the love itself.

Later, I have begun to think of this motif as the essence of the Christianity. A lady in the Old Testament tells that she cannot estimate the figure of her lover as other girls do, because she doesn't love him for its sake, but love his invisible things like his heart.

I have learned the spiritual love from this novel. I'd advise the young people to read it.

If you loved Consuelo, you'll love this even more. It's a bit more romantic and adventurous than the first book, with none of the gloominess but a typical romance novel happy end. In this book Consuelo gets to experience life and love to the fullest. One of the best romantic thrillers of all time.

It is a crime that most of George Sand's novels are out of print. Why are all of the boring male authors still not only in print but taught in literature courses, while Sand, the most celebrated author of her day, is impossible to find?!

Lelia was Sand's third novel, and her most controversial when published. It is quite difficult to read -- more like a series of prose poems than a novel, really. But it is certainly worth the effort. Not only is Sand a true artist and poet, but she is a sharp proto-feminist critic; in fact, many of her critiques of marriage and the treatment of women are still completely relevent today.

Lelia tells the story of a woman of towering intellect who is unable to feel physical passion (she refers to herself as "impotent"). She feels great passion for art, poetry, and Nature, but she is unable to consummate her relationship with the young poet Stenio. Much of the novel consists of the letter written between Lelia and Stenio, so we see Lelia both through the lens of the male gaze (the men constantly dichotomize her into angel/demon, mother/whore) and through her own eyes. The center of the novel deals with Lelia's relationship to her sister, the courtesan Pulcherie (based on Sand's romantic relationship with the actress Marie Dorval). At the heart of the novel is a description of Pulcherie looking upon the sleeping Lelia as a young girl and learning for the first time the power of love and life. It is, in my opinion, one of Sand's finest passages and absolutely not to be missed by anyone interested in Sand, women's European literature, or lesbian literature.

Lelia is an emotially turbulant novel; nowhere do we find the harmonious, transcendant union between man and woman that characterizes much of Sand's other work. Lelia stands out as a Sandian oddity because of the time in Sand's life in which it was written. Although it's difficult to find a copy, I highly recommend getting it any way you can. It is the job of feminist readers and critics to get Sand back into the canon.

This novel although certainly different nevertheless it is exciting in its own peculiar way, very dramatic, intensely poetic, soft, charming and inviting; and yet by all means the heroine is despairing, terribly gloomy sort of character, suicidal and dark, but mostly she is out of this world, alike a visionary. The book is gentle, romantic in tragic sense of the word, Leilia is kind-hearted and yet doomed, reader grasps by own choice certainly. It is a finely written book, belonging perfectly to its Romantic 19th century era. It is dark, tragic, sentimental. But simply breath-taking. Can't be put down easily. Quite haunting.