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Each affordable volume reflects Oxford's commitment to scholarship, providing the most accurate text plus a wealth of other valuable features, including expert introductions by leading authorities, helpful notes to clarify the text, up-to-date bibliographies for further study, and much more.","brand":"Gardners","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":43201549074610,"sku":"9780199540488","price":8.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0612\/7193\/3106\/files\/9780199540488_a5743124-9bf9-41b6-a314-3790f8d582f4.jpg?v=1786012920"},{"product_id":"9780253202468","title":"Lélia","description":"Regarded as one of Sand's best novels, Lélia is an important document in the evolution of women's consciousness. Published in 1833, when Sand was 29, it stunned Victorians by advocating the same standard of morality for men and women and by suggesting that both the prostitute and the married woman were slaves to male desire. Sand also questioned monogamy, fidelity, and monastic celibacy. She later made an unsuccessful attempt to revise the book and to expunge its despair and skepticism.  Although Sand wrote copiously, until recently only a handful of her books were available in English. This first English translation of Lélia is an excellent rendering, capturing the raptures, the mysticism, and the nineteenth-century flavor ot its eternally fascinating subject.","brand":"Gardners","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":56232469037429,"sku":"9780253202468","price":15.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0612\/7193\/3106\/files\/9780253202468_2c7c78cb-0ca4-4283-82f5-cd2b1f5c1087.jpg?v=1786012863"},{"product_id":"9780645751925","title":"The Last of the Aldinis","description":"\u003cbr\u003eBinding: Paperback \/ softback","brand":"Gardners","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":56292481040757,"sku":"9780645751925","price":11.95,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0612\/7193\/3106\/files\/9780645751925_6fd21851-e5b6-4c0a-9da5-aa944c242998.jpg?v=1786014593"},{"product_id":"9781804471029","title":"François the Waif","description":"Although sadly neglected in English translation, George Sand was a monumentally important novelist of nineteenth-century France, and her works were better known in her day than those of Victor Hugo. François the Waif (also translated as The Country Waif), considered by many to be her masterpiece, tells the tale of a young orphan who is placed in rural foster care. Presented in a fresh edit of the original English translation, and with helpful annotations, this edition presents the text for a new generation of readers.","brand":"Gardners","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":56307514016117,"sku":"9781804471029","price":7.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0612\/7193\/3106\/files\/9781804471029_22509e62-96ea-44a8-a0c1-dd7e09764b67.jpg?v=1786026874"},{"product_id":"9781912868810","title":"This Woman, This Man","description":"George Sand's fictionalised account of her notorious affair with the poet Alfred de Musset caused a sensation on its publication two years after his death, in 1859. It also prompted a volley of claim and counter-claim: two more novels rapidly appeared in the following months, Lui Et Elle, by Musset’s brother, defending his reputation; and Lui, by Louise Colet, Flaubert’s former mistress and briefly Musset’s. Then the journalists and commentators of the day joined in, with Eux, by Gaston Lavalley, and Eux Et Elles, by Adolphe de Lescure, satirising the whole sordid business.","brand":"Gardners","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":56309270741365,"sku":"9781912868810","price":9.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0612\/7193\/3106\/files\/9781912868810_afd64657-6da7-449b-9720-50b540e30d16.jpg?v=1786030910"},{"product_id":"9798818122755","title":"A Cidade Negra","description":"Na França do século XIX, uma cidade se encontra cortada em dois: na cidade alta, vivem os ricos e os notáveis que controlam a economia local; na cidade baixa, a \"Cidade Negra\", vivem os operários que trabalham arduamente nas usinas de cutelaria e de papel. Um desses trabalhadores, o jovem e talentoso Étienne, apelidado de \"Sete-Espadas\", sonha em ascender socialmente para instalar-se na cidade alta e levar uma vida burguesa. Para isso, terá de renunciar ao seu amor por Tonine, jovem operária cuja única ambição é ajudar aqueles ao seu redor. Dividido entre o desejo de sucesso e o afeto pela mais virtuosa das mulheres, Sete-Espadas terá de enfrentar uma difícil escolha. 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Bringing this long forgotten jewel of early nineteenth century historical fiction to English readers for the first time in more than a century, Lynne Forest’s vivid new translation restores a tale of passion, intrigue, and conflict that pulses with the energy of a glittering Venice that was once at the centre of the world.","brand":"Gardners","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":57490368758133,"sku":"9781911501282","price":12.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0612\/7193\/3106\/files\/9781911501282.jpg?v=1786442265"},{"product_id":"lhistoire-de-jules-cesar","title":"L'Histoire de Jules Cesar","description":null,"brand":"Gardners","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":57492494156149,"sku":"9781916658028","price":8.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0612\/7193\/3106\/files\/9781916658028.jpg?v=1786529377"},{"product_id":"the-george-sand-gustave-flaubert-letters","title":"The George Sand-Gustave Flaubert Letters","description":"The \"George Sand-Gustave Flaubert letters\" are a set of correspondence between two of the most well-known French authors of the 19th century, George Sand and Gustave Flaubert. 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