What are George Sand's best novels?

I wondered particularly about the hidden life of George Sand, who was born Aurore Dupin in 1804 and died in 1876. She is ... She wrote a great deal from personal experience, but more unusually she tested out, in her fiction, possibilities for life which she then had the courage to live out, after the writing event. read more

As for books, I particularly liked what are called her "country" novels, about life among country people in the French rural areas, including La Petite Fadette and Francois le Champi (they are soothing and gently old-fashioned) and Mauprat, which is a kind of wild romance. read more

Amantine Lucile Aurore Dupin (French: [amɑ̃tin lysil oʁɔʁ dypɛ̃]; 1 July 1804 – 8 June 1876), best known by her nom de plume George Sand (French: [ʒɔʁʒ sɑ̃d]), was a French novelist and memoirist. read more

Only when I began to read George Sand's novels did I become uneasy with my image of her as a somewhat monstrous public figure, one which suggested a self-seeking, unreflecting, and egotistical inner self. What I encountered reading her was a quite different presence. read more