"Cracked geodes. Circular waterfalls. Eskimos on sleds crossing polar seas. An extraordinary visual experience in the form of an impossible love story that consistently defies its own description. A meditation on beauty told through a fascination with form"
JANICE KERBEL Frieze
"Its symbolist exploration of young love ... is endearingly eccentric"
The Times
ABOUT THE BOOK
WHILE WORKING IN a small geological museum, Alexis Hartz meets his cousin Laura, who has discovered a way to enter a geode. Travelling through a vast and glittering landscape of brilliant crystals, Alexis passionately falls in love with Laura but, when they return to the ordinary world, only friendship remains. He yearns for the perfect world of the crystals, and returning there becomes a perilous obsession. But is the crystal world as real as it seems or is his mind playing tricks on him?
Written in 1864 and published in a new translation by Sue Dyson, this little known work by George Sand is a fantastical novel in the truest sense of the word; a strange and compelling tale with echoes of Jules Verne, H G Wells, Conan Doyle's Lost World and Phillip Pullman's His Dark Materials.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
GEORGE SAND was born Amandine-Aurore Lucile Dupin in Paris in 1804 and brought up at Nohant, her grandmother's country home. In 1822 Sand married Baron Casimir Dudevant but left him and their disastrous marriage to seek a better life in Paris. Her most famous novels portray the struggles of women against social constraints, especially marriage. Legendary for her numerous love affairs with such prominent figures as Prosper Merimée, Alfred de Musset and Frederic Chopin, Sand was also a celebrated writer whose works influenced Dostoevsky, Tolstoy, Flaubert and Proust.
TRANSLATED BY Sue Dyson
Cover illustration by Henry Fuseli
ISBN 1 901285 51 0 - 160pp
ABOUT THE BOOK
WHILE WORKING IN a small geological museum, Alexis Hartz meets his cousin Laura, who has discovered a way to enter a geode. Travelling through a vast and glittering landscape of brilliant crystals, Alexis passionately falls in love with Laura but, when they return to the ordinary world, only friendship remains. He yearns for the perfect world of the crystals, and returning there becomes a perilous obsession. But is the crystal world as real as it seems or is his mind playing tricks on him?
Written in 1864 and published in a new translation by Sue Dyson, this little known work by George Sand is a fantastical novel in the truest sense of the word; a strange and compelling tale with echoes of Jules Verne, H G Wells, Conan Doyle's Lost World and Phillip Pullman's His Dark Materials.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
GEORGE SAND was born Amandine-Aurore Lucile Dupin in Paris in 1804 and brought up at Nohant, her grandmother's country home. In 1822 Sand married Baron Casimir Dudevant but left him and their disastrous marriage to seek a better life in Paris. Her most famous novels portray the struggles of women against social constraints, especially marriage. Legendary for her numerous love affairs with such prominent figures as Prosper Merimée, Alfred de Musset and Frederic Chopin, Sand was also a celebrated writer whose works influenced Dostoevsky, Tolstoy, Flaubert and Proust.
TRANSLATED BY Sue Dyson
Cover illustration by Henry Fuseli
ISBN 1 901285 51 0 - 160pp
