Laura
Subtitle: a journey into the crystal
By: George Sand ; translated from the French by Sue Dyson.
Contributors: Dyson, Sue.
Publisher: Pushkin Press
Published: 2004
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 126
Work titles: Laura.
Description: "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 falls passionately 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 an perilous obsession. But is the crystal world as real as it seems or is his mind succumbing to its dark powers?"--Jacket.
Notes: "First published in French as 'Laura, voyage dans le cristal' in 1864.--T.p. verso.