Mauprat
A Gothic Historical Romance of Moral Education, Social Reform, and Love in Pre-Revolutionary FranceBy George Sand
Length13h 12m
About this audiobook
Published in 1837, George Sand's *Mauprat* is at once a Gothic family saga, a Bildungsroman, and a philosophical romance of moral transformation. Its narrator, Bernard de Mauprat, recounts his emergence from a brutal, feudal lineage into ethical and intellectual maturity under the influence of his cousin Edmée, whose independence, rationality, and compassion challenge the violence of aristocratic patriarchy. Combining adventure, suspense, psychological introspection, and dialogue shaped by Enlightenment ideals, Sand places a sensational plot within the literary context of French Romanticism while questioning the inherited privileges, sexual codes, and social hierarchies that Romantic fiction often sentimentalized. The novel's movement from predation to education gives its Gothic darkness a distinctly reformist purpose. George Sand, the pen name of Amantine Aurore Dupin, was one of nineteenth-century France's most influential novelists and a forceful advocate of personal, intellectual, and social emancipation. Her unconventional life, public rejection of restrictive gender expectations, engagement with republican and socialist ideas, and sustained interest in the condition of women inform *Mauprat*'s critique of domination. Sand's characteristic sympathy for self-education and humane social relations transforms the novel's love story into an argument for civilization through education and equality. Readers interested in Romantic fiction, feminist literary history, or the relationship between literature and social reform will find *Mauprat* especially rewarding. Its vivid atmosphere and narrative momentum make it accessible as a novel of adventure, while its treatment of gender, class, inheritance, and moral responsibility invites sustained scholarly reflection. It is a compelling introduction to Sand's daring vision of individual and collective liberation.
Audiobook details
GenreHistorical Fiction, Literary Classics
Length13 hrs 12 mins
Narrated byListen with 1,000+ voices
FormateBook with Audio
Publish dateMar 18, 2022
LanguageEnglish
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