The Devil's Pool - Couverture souple

Sand Pse, Title George; George Sand

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 1421896451 ISBN 13 : 9781421896458

Editeur : 1st World Library - Literary Society, 2007

Synopsis

I HAD just been looking long and sadly at Holbein's plowman, and was walking through the fields, musing on rustic life and the destiny of the husbandman. It is certainly tragic for him to spend his days and his strength delving in the jealous earth, that so reluctantly yields up her rich treasures when a morsel of coarse black bread, at the end of the day's work, is the sole reward and profit to be reaped from such arduous toil. The wealth of the soil, the harvests, the fruits, the splendid cattle that grow sleek and fat in the luxuriant grass, are the property of the few, and but instruments of the drudgery and slavery of the many. The man of leisure seldom loves, for their own sake, the fields and meadows, the landscape, or the noble animals which are to be converted into gold for his use. He comes to the country for his health or for change of air, but goes back to town to spend the fruit of his vassal's labor.

A propos du livre

Biographie de l'auteur

George Sand is the pen name of Amantine Lucile Aurore Dupin, Baroness Dudevant, a 19th century French novelist. Sand is best known for her memoir A Winter in Majorca, in which she reflects on her time on the island with Chopin in 1838-39. Sand was an early socialist who published her own newspaper using a workers' co-operative and spurned gender standards by wearing men's clothing and smoking tobacco in public. George Sand died in France in 1876.

Revue de presse

'Early deaths and endemic poverty are treated here as part of natural life; and natural life, with its indomitable, instinctive force for continuity, is what she is celebrating...it seems to me a book...worth reading more than once. --Victoria Glendinning

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: 1st World Library - Literary Society
• Date d'édition: 2007
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1421896451
• ISBN 13: 9781421896458
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 148
• Éditeur: 1stworld Library
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
• Personne responsable: non disponible