{"product_id":"the-country-waif-paperback","title":"The Country Waif: (Francois Le Champi) - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eGeorge Sand\u003c\/b\u003e (Author), \u003cb\u003eEirene Collis\u003c\/b\u003e (Translator), \u003cb\u003eDorothy Wynne Zimmerman\u003c\/b\u003e (Introduction by)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Country Waif\u003c\/i\u003e (\u003ci\u003eFrançoise le Champi\u003c\/i\u003e) is the second of the three pastoral novels which rank along with George Sand's autobiographical writing as her finest work. Although simple in themselves, these tales have behind them much of the complex experience of her extraordinary life. As Mrs. Zimmerman writes in the introduction, they reflect Sand's \"youthful romanticism, her later championing of the working classes, and her desire to record in fiction that was both poetic and factual the lives of the people and the region she knew best.\"\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSet in the countryside of the author's native province of Berry, \u003ci\u003eThe Country Waif\u003c\/i\u003e tells the story of François, an orphan boy placed in a rural foster home, and Madeline, the miller's wife who befriends him. Sand's contemporary, Turgenev, wrote that it was \"in her best manner, simple, true, affecting.\" The book has been admired by writers as diverse as Willa Cather (she found it \"supremely beautiful\") and André Malraux, who considered it a masterpiece.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAs well as examining the setting, language, and narrative mode of the novel, the introduction looks at Sand's life, in part from the feminist perspective, with attention to the sociopolitical background of the post-Napoleonic era, when Aurore Dudevant felt impelled to rebel against her status as a country wife and to become George Sand.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eDorothy Wynne Zimmerman is a professor emeritus of English at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln.\u003c\/p\u003e\n        \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 181\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.57 x 8.06 x 5.08 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e July 01, 1977\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42131307987079,"sku":"9780803258501","price":24.23,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0601\/2623\/2711\/files\/f956ffef1afa63f31cb3e56b0527b96e.webp?v=1732617904","url":"https:\/\/booksby.splitshops.com\/products\/the-country-waif-paperback","provider":"Books by splitShops","version":"1.0","type":"link"}