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  1. Nov 3, 2023 · I ndiana by George Sand is an 1832 novel about a young woman who seeks happiness in the face of a loveless marriage and a disastrous affair. Indiana is unhappily married to Colonel Delmare.

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    Three people are sitting together in front of the fireplace in a manor housein Brie. They are the retired Colonel Delmare, a successful industrialist who“made everyone tremble”; his nineteen-year-old wife, Indiana, seated in thecorner; and a handsome young man with an “insipid” face, Sir Ralph Brown.Delmare is forever alert for any sign of romantic...

    Indiana gently reproves Ralph for having told her husband she was feelingunwell. Ralph says the Colonel is a worthy man and that Indiana has no need tobe so sad and in such ill health. He realizes he is being clumsy and begs herto remember their childhood on Bourbon Island and prove him wrong by gettingwell again. He reminds her that she has wealth...

    When Delmare enters the makeshift sick room, Indiana tells him that the man is not dead and will recover. Delmare demands to know who he is and why he is here. When Indiana says she doesn’t know, he says he will find out. He then calls back the servant who claimed to know the man’s identity. The servant...

  3. Indiana is a novel about love and marriage written by Amantine Aurore Dupin; it was the first work she published under her pseudonym George Sand. Published in April 1832, the novel blends the conventions of romanticism, realism and idealism.

  4. Indiana by George Sand "Indiana" is a novel set in 19th-century France that explores themes of love, marriage, and personal freedom. The story follows the life of its eponymous heroine, a noblewoman trapped in an unhappy marriage to a much older man.

  5. Indiana was the novel that launched the phenomenally successful career of nineteenth-century French author George Sand. In her preface, Sand explains that she wrote without any plan in...

  6. Dec 11, 2022 · George Sand’s first novel, Indiana (1832), argued for the freedom of young women to follow their hearts, make their own terrible mistakes, and learn from them in order to grow and be true to themselves.

  7. This engaging summary presents an analysis of Indiana by George Sand, an exploration of a young woman's decline as she searches for an escape from her loveless marriage through an affair with an eloquent nobleman.

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