{"product_id":"the-devils-pool-hesperus-classics-9781843911050","title":"The Devil's Pool (Hesperus Classics)","description":"\u003cp\u003eThe 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.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"My Store","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45116267200565,"sku":"ByrdShop_1843911051","price":59.78,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0627\/8139\/0901\/files\/9781843911050.jpg?v=1776033245","url":"https:\/\/atxbooks.com\/products\/the-devils-pool-hesperus-classics-9781843911050","provider":"ATX Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}