The Devil's Pool
A French Pastoral Romance of Peasant Life, Rural Courtship, and Moral CourageBy George Sand
Length4h 17m
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George Sand's *The Devil's Pool* (*La Mare au Diable*, 1846) is a pastoral novella set amid the fields, forests, and villages of rural Berry. Its plot follows Germain, a widowed peasant, as he travels in search of a new marriage and gradually discovers a more humane possibility of love with the young shepherdess Marie, while the child Petit-Pierre accompanies and transforms their journey. Sand's deceptively simple narrative combines folklore, ethnographic observation, lyrical descriptions of landscape, and a carefully shaped romance. Beneath its rustic surface lies a critique of class prejudice, arranged marriage, and the economic pressures governing rural life. The work belongs to the nineteenth-century pastoral tradition, yet revises it through attention to labor, female dignity, and the moral intelligence of ordinary people. George Sand, the pseudonym of Amantine-Lucile-Aurore Dupin, was one of the most influential French novelists of the Romantic period. Her unconventional personal life, political sympathies, and sustained advocacy of women's independence informed her interest in characters constrained by social convention. Raised at Nohant and deeply attached to the countryside, she drew upon intimate knowledge of rural customs and agricultural communities. The novella reflects her broader effort to imagine social relations founded on sympathy, equality, and mutual responsibility rather than property or patriarchal authority. Readers interested in Romantic literature, rural history, gender studies, or the development of the social novel will find *The Devil's Pool* especially rewarding. Its concise form, emotional clarity, and richly observed setting make it accessible, while its treatment of work, class, family, and freedom invites sustained scholarly reflection.
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GenreLiterary Classics, General Fiction
Length4 hrs 17 mins
Narrated byListen with 1,000+ voices
FormateBook with Audio
Publish dateMar 18, 2022
LanguageEnglish
Table of contents
1The Marquis de Villemer
13XII. The Village Lioness
2I. The Author to the Reader
14XIII. The Master
3II. The Ploughing
15XIV. The Old Woman
4III. Père Maurice
16XV. The Return to the Farm
5IV. Germain, the Cunning Ploughman
17XVI. Mère Maurice
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6V. La Guillette
18XVII. Little Marie
7VI. Petit-Pierre
19Appendix
8VII. On the Moor
20I. The Country Wedding
9VIII. Under the Great Oaks
21II. The Livrées
10IX. The Evening Prayer
22III. The Wedding
11X. Despite the Cold
23IV. The Cabbage
12XI. In the Open Air
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