
George Sand
PREMIÈRE PARTIE.
JOURNAL D'UN SOLITAIRE A PARIS.
DEUXIÈME PARTIE.
ALICE.
TROISIÈME PARTIE.
LETTRE PREMIÈRE.
LETTRE DEUXIÈME.
LETTRE TROISIÈME.
LETTRE QUATRIÈME.
A curious manuscript surfaces from a cramped Parisian attic, pieced together from two scattered notebooks left behind by a reclusive thinker of the 1840s. In the first, he drafts unfinished philosophical fragments, wrestling with questions about the equality of women and men, the role of the state in education, and the shape of an ideal society. The second notebook reads like a personal diary, where the same mind records his daily moods, the biting winter wind, and the restless urge to turn abstraction into a finished work.
The narrative unfolds through terse, intimate entries that blend intellectual debate with raw self‑reflection. Listeners will hear a voice caught between lofty ideals and the very human struggle of solitude, feeling the chill of a Paris that never sleeps while the author battles doubt and inspiration. It’s a compelling glimpse into a mind on the brink of a great, unfinished treatise, inviting you to linger in the quiet moments between thought and action.
Language
fr
Duration
~5 hours (336K characters)
Publisher of text edition
Project Gutenberg
Credits
Produced by Renald Levesque and the PG Online Distributed Proofreading Team. This file was produced from images generously made available by the Bibliothèque nationale de France (BnF/Gallica) at http://gallica.bnf.fr
Release date
2004-10-14
Rights
Public domain in the USA.
Subjects

1804–1876
A fearless French novelist of the Romantic era, she wrote with unusual freedom about love, society, and country life. Her books helped make her one of the most famous and widely read women writers of 19th-century Europe.
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