Lucrezia Floriani (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9781915568922)

The upright - and uptight - prince Karol de Roswald meets Lucrezia Floriani, a former actress with a chequered past. Despite their very different backgrounds and tastes, a passionate love affair develops. The mutual friend who has brought them together, Salvator Albani, is astounded.

Weaving intricate patterns from the shifting alliances between these three principal characters, George Sand traces the dramatically swift rise and painfully slow destruction of the relationship between a severe and difficult young man and a heroically generous older woman.

Published in 1846, the year before Sand's separation from Frédéric Chopin after a ten-year relationship, Lucrezia Floriani minutely examines the character of the hyper-sensitive, unworldly Karol while exposing the strain on its heroine of sustaining an emotionally draining mismatch. The faults on both sides can only lead to one end.

Author: George Sand
ISBN-10: 1915568927
ISBN-13: 9781915568922
Publisher: Dedalus
Language: English
Published: 09/30/2026
Pages: 320
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.65lbs
Size: 7.73h x 5.05w x 1.11d