The Devil’s Pool
Publisher: Standard Ebooks
Published: 2023
Language: eng
Subjects: Pastoral fiction, French; Fiction
Description: <p>Germain, a late-twenties widower, still lives with his late wife’s family. Germain’s father-in-law Maurice decides that two years is long enough to grieve; Germain needs a wife, and his children need a mother. Maurice has investigated, and found what he believes is a suitable match in a neighboring village. He sends Germain off to meet the woman, and on the way drops off a teenage girl at the farm where she has been newly employed. The rest of the novel demonstrates the old aphorism of “the best-laid plans... often go awry.”</p> <p><i>The Devil’s Pool</i> is the first of four pastoral novels that <a href="https://standardebooks.org/ebooks/george-sand">George Sand</a> originally intended to release together. They were inspired by the community in which she was raised.</p>