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A Tale of the Wind - A Novel of Nineteenth Century France
A Tale of the Wind A Novel of Nineteenth Century France Author:Kay Nolte Smith In 1827, the new wind of Romanticism swept the worlds of art in Paris. Poets, actors, and painters demanded greater freedom on the stage, on canvas, in their lives. Against this turbulent backgroun. A Tale of the Wind begins - the absorbing story of two people whose true natures are first apparent onl to each other: the young girl whose beaut... more »y and passion are cloaked in rags and grime, and the actor whose talent and spirit would enable him to play great heroic parts but whose body makes such a dream forever impossible - Jeanne Sorel and the man known only as Nandou. From Romanticism to the thrshold of Modernism, through the scandals of Realism and Impressionism, the revolutions of 1830 and 1848, the cholera epidemics, the saveage Commune of 1870, jeanne and Nandou form a strang "harmony of opposites". Although Nandou had believed he would always be alone, he comes to share his life not only with Jeanne, whose rise from poverty seems to render his love for her even more hopeless, but also with her daughter, the singer who dreams of respectability but enters the most unconventional of marriages, and her granddaughter, whose independent spirit sends her on a hellish search for her lost father.« less