num_pages: 108
description: 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(1804-76) is best known for two groups of novels; a series of romantic tales and a collection of country-life idylls.
language: English
title: The Devil's Pool
titlecomplete: The Devil's Pool
genres: Literature, Classics, Womens, Novels, 19th Century, France, Roman, French Literature, Fiction, Romance
ratings_count: 4180
places: France
publisher: Echo Library