{"product_id":"becoming-george-the-invention-of-george-sand-9781324074915","title":"Becoming George: The Invention of George Sand","description":"\u003cp\u003eBy the age of thirty, the young woman who was born Aurore Dupin in 1804 in a Paris garret had become the internationally renowned George Sand. In English, her novels were outselling even Victor Hugo. Her enormous and radical corpus would grow to include seventy novels, travel writing, plays, autobiography, and political writing. But despite this prodigious talent, Sand was simultaneously a figure of scandal. Cigar-smoking, cross-dressing, and promiscuous, she seemed to break all the rules society set for women.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWas her iconoclasm simply an act of courage, a declaration of absolute autonomy? Or did her sexual and emotional relationships with the leading figures of her day--from Fryderyk Chopin to Gustave Flaubert, and Alfred de Musset to Eugène Delacroix--form part of her dialogue with the world around her: a dialogue that's intrinsic to writing itself? To what extent do we invent ourselves? And what can we learn, from Sand's life and art, about how writers in particular invent themselves, and are reinvented by the society around them?\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis year marks the 150th anniversary of Sand's death, and \u003cem\u003eBecoming George\u003c\/em\u003e is a fitting celebration of her literary genius--as well as the first new biography in nearly twenty-five years. Award-winning poet and biographer Fiona Sampson rehabilitates an artistic and intellectual giant who still speaks to us today. Brilliantly prescient--about ecology, politics, society, gender--George Sand was truly a figure ahead of her time.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Fiona Sampson\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e W. W. Norton \u0026amp; Company\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 06\/23\/2026\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 400\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.20lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.44h x 6.32w x 1.37d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781324074915\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eReview Citation(s): \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003ePublishers Weekly\u003c\/i\u003e 04\/13\/2026\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eKirkus Reviews\u003c\/i\u003e 05\/01\/2026\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eSampson, Fiona:\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e - \u003cstrong\u003eFiona Sampson\u003c\/strong\u003e MBE FRSL is a leading British poet, a writer, and Romanticist. Professor Emerita of Poetry, University of Roehampton and Senior Research Fellow at Harris Manchester College University of Oxford, she has received numerous national and international literary awards and been published in thirty-eight languages. \u003cem\u003eBecoming George\u003c\/em\u003e completes a trilogy of acclaimed biographies. \u003cem\u003eIn Search of Mary Shelley\u003c\/em\u003e, a London \u003cem\u003eTimes\u003c\/em\u003e Book of the Year, was followed by \u003cem\u003eTwo-Way Mirror: The Life of Elizabeth Barrett Browning\u003c\/em\u003e, a \u003cem\u003eWashington Post\u003c\/em\u003e Book of the Year, \u003cem\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/em\u003e bestseller, and finalist for the Plutarch Award and the PEN\/Jacqueline Bograd Weld Award for biography.","brand":"booksdeli.com","offers":[{"title":"Fiona Sampson \/ Hardcover \/ English","offer_id":48552004223133,"sku":"9781324074915","price":42.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0619\/5648\/9373\/files\/img_c7dc4285-6646-47c4-8f68-491f939c85ab.jpg?v=1782826984","url":"https:\/\/booksdeli.com\/products\/becoming-george-the-invention-of-george-sand-9781324074915","provider":"booksdeli.com","version":"1.0","type":"link"}