Project Gutenberg 2004-07-09 Public domain in the USA. 77 Sand, George 1804 1876 Dupin, Amandine-Aurore-Lucile Dudevant, Amandine-Aurore-Lucile Dupin, Armandine Aurore Lucille Mattea Reading ease score: 67.7 (8th & 9th grade). Neither easy nor difficult to read. Produced by Renald Levesque and the 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 "Mattea" by George Sand is a novel written in the mid-19th century. The story unfolds in a richly described Venice, where the central character is Mattea, a fourteen-year-old girl caught between her aspirations and the oppressive control of her parents, particularly her tyrannical mother, Loredana. As she navigates her burgeoning beauty and the suitors it attracts, Mattea finds herself drawn to Abul, a Turkish merchant, complicating her familial obligations and personal desires. The opening of the novel introduces a stormy day in Venice, setting the scene for Ser Zacomo Spada, a wealthy silk merchant, who struggles comically with a runaway hat while caught in a sudden downpour. As this amusing calamity unfolds, we learn of his daughter, Mattea, and the weighty concerns surrounding her impending future. Zacomo grapples with pride in his daughter's beauty and potential marriage prospects, but he is increasingly distressed by her mysterious attachment to Abul, a wealthy Turk. This attachment is discussed with the princess Veneranda, who offers insights and advice, foreshadowing the conflicts to come. Through these interactions, Sand establishes Mattea's internal conflict and the dynamics of love, society, and cultural differences that will shape her journey. (This is an automatically generated summary.) fr French fiction -- 19th century PQ Text FR Femmes FR Nouvelles Browsing: Culture/Civilization/Society Browsing: Literature Browsing: Fiction 150642 150470 2024-10-06T05:03:20.151659 2023-10-06T06:54:41.447082 text/html text/html 143498 2020-12-15T06:43:29 text/html; charset=iso-8859-1 56454 2020-12-15T06:43:29 text/html; charset=iso-8859-1 application/zip 119543 2024-10-06T05:03:24.547628 application/epub+zip 120468 2024-10-06T05:03:21.842641 application/epub+zip 120468 2024-10-06T05:03:20.750650 application/epub+zip 197238 2024-10-06T05:03:26.615614 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 189145 2024-10-06T05:03:23.906630 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 167056 2022-09-06T22:53:35.455872 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 143394 143170 2024-10-06T05:03:19.841643 2023-10-06T06:54:41.228087 text/plain; charset=us-ascii text/plain 139997 2020-12-15T06:43:29 text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 55083 2020-12-15T06:43:29 text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 application/zip 139988 2020-12-15T06:43:28 text/plain; charset=us-ascii 54149 2020-12-15T06:43:29 text/plain; charset=us-ascii application/zip 22495 2024-10-06T05:03:26.741606 application/rdf+xml 8732 2024-10-06T05:03:21.281637 image/jpeg 2485 2024-10-06T05:03:21.013637 image/jpeg 118159 2024-10-06T05:03:20.166654 application/octet-stream application/zip Archives containing the RDF files for *all* our books can be downloaded at https://www.gutenberg.org/wiki/Gutenberg:Feeds#The_Complete_Project_Gutenberg_Catalog en.wikipedia fr.wikipedia