Hardcover. Boston, Roberts Brothers, 1st US, 1870, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, terra-cotta cloth with embossed design, gilt lettering on spine. Translated from the French by Virginia Vaughan. Ex-lib with markings, reside to front endpapers. Mild dampstain to bottom of last 100 pages. An attractive reading copy despite faults. Mauprat is a novel by the French novelist George Sand about love and education. It was published in serial form in April and May 1837. Like many of Sand's novels, Mauprat borrows from various fictional genres- the Gothic novel, chivalric romance, the Bildungsroman, detective fiction, and the historical novel.