George Sand on the French Revolution from the perspective of a peasant girl - one of the first feminist authors in world literature in a new translation. Revolution is a man's affair. No. Because George Sand, the unconventional, provocative woman among the French classics, tells it differently: Nanon is fourteen when the Revolution breaks out in 1789, tearing down all social classes. The peasant girl, a serf, becomes both a witness and an active participant in one of the greatest upheavals in history. As a girl still illiterate, Nanon writes down her life at a young age: the gripping story of a woman's emancipation and education in a male-dominated century. Alongside her highly acclaimed new translations of Stendhal and Flaubert, Elisabeth Edl now presents this richly annotated edition of one of the great female writers in world literature.