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The devil's pool / George Sand ; translated by Andrew Brown.
- Title
- The devil's pool / George Sand ; translated by Andrew Brown.
- Author
- Sand, George, 1804-1876
- Publication
- London : Hesperus, 2005.
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| Status | Format | Access | Call Number | Item Location |
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- Additional Authors
- Brown, Andrew, Dr.
- Description
- xviii, 121 p.; 20 cm.
- Summary
- "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 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."--BOOK JACKET.
- Series Statement
- Hesperus Classics
- Uniform Title
- Hesperus classics
- Subject
- Pastoral fiction, French
- Genre/Form
- Pastoral fiction
- Language (note)
- Translated from the French.
- Processing Action (note)
- committed to retain
- ISBN
- 1843911051 (pbk.)
- OCLC
- 59184334
- SCSB-11304762
- Owning Institutions
- Harvard Library