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'The Devil's Pool' is one of a group of pastoral novels inspired by the countryside of Nohant in Berry, where George Sand grew up. These novels are simple stories of country life, in which Sand records local customs and manners, depicting a timeless idyll, unaffected by the outside world and the political events of the time. With his wife dead, and three young children to look after, ploughman Germaine decides that the time has come to marry again. He embarks on a journey to meet a rich widow, Catherine Leonard, in a match which has been approved by his father-in-law; but he finds her proud and vain, and surrounded by other suitors. Germaine prefers the company of Marie, a young shepherdess from his own village, but she is insistent that she wants a younger, more suitable husband... 'The Devil's Pool' is charming tale, and a classic love story.
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French novelist George Sand (1804-76) is best-known for two groups of novels: a series of romantic tales, and a collection of idylls of country life. Biographer, critic, broadcaster and novelist, Victoria Glendinning is the author of three novels: 'The Grown-Ups' (1989); 'Electricity' (1995); and 'Flight' (2002).
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When Germain a shy but handsome widower is sent by his father-in-law to find himself a wife, he sets out on his journey with a heavy heart. The prospective spouse is said to be rich, with land and a tidy dowry. But Germain fears for the fate of his three angelic children and for the state of his own bruised heart. Everything changes during his voyage through a dark wood and around a haunted marsh when Germain falls passionately in love with an impoverished young shepherdess. Should he follow his heart, and woo the girl he now loves? Or please his family by marrying a rich but disdainful widow?
A love song to the French countryside a provocative romance of two simple hearts The Devil s Pool is above all a paean to an antique language and way of life which, even by 1844, was being eroded by industrialisation and the inexorable expansion of a national identity.
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- PublisherHesperus Press Ltd
- Publication date2004
- ISBN 10 1843911051
- ISBN 13 9781843911050
- BindingPaperback
- LanguageEnglish
- Number of pages160
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