The Devil's Pool

By Sand, George

Book Id: WPLBN0000633200
Format Type: PDF eBook
File Size: 151.51 KB
Reproduction Date: 2005

Title:	The Devil's Pool
Author:	Sand, George
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Language:	English
Subject:	Literature, Literature & thought, Writing.
Collections:	Blackmask Online Collection
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Publisher:	Blackmask Online


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Description
Excerpt: WHEN I wrote The Devil?s Pool, the first of a series of pastoral tales which I meant to bring out together under the title of Tales of a Hemp?dresser, I had no system in view, and no design of introducing a revolution into literature. No one man has ever effected a revolution; for a revolution, especially in art, is an unconscious change which everybody has had a hand in. But this is not applicable to tales of rustic life, which have always existed, at all times, and under all forms, and have been sometimes pompous, sometimes affected, and sometimes natural.

Table of Contents
Table of Contents: The Devil's Pool, 1 -- George Sand, 1 -- Author's Preface, 1 -- The Author to the Reader, 2 -- I. The Tillage of the Soil, 4 -- II. Father Maurice, 7 -- III. Germain, the Skilled Husbandman, 8 -- IV. Mother Guillette, 11 -- V. Petit?Pierre, 13 -- VI. On the Heath, 17 -- VII. Underneath the Big Oaks, 19 -- VIII. The Evening Prayer, 23 -- IX. Despite the Cold, 25 -- X. Beneath the Stars, 28 -- XI. The Belle of the Village, 32 -- XII. The Master, 33 -- XIII. The Old Woman, 37 -- XIV. The Return to the Farm, 40 -- XV. Mother Maurice, 42 -- XVI. Little Marie, 44 -- Appendix, 45 -- I. A Country Wedding, 45 -- II. The Wedding Favours, 48 -- III. The Wedding, 52 -- IV. The Cabbage, 55 -- The Devil's Pool -- i