The Devil's Pool (Hesperus Classics)

About this book

The Devils 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 raise 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 that has been approved by his father-in-law; however 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. Influential French author George Sand is best known for two groups of novels: a series of romantic tales and a collection of country-life idylls.