The Devils Pool (1894) - Couverture rigide

Sand Pse, Title George

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ISBN 10 : 1498162304 ISBN 13 : 9781498162302

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The Devil's Pool is a novel written by the French author George Sand and originally published in 1894. The story is set in the French countryside and follows the lives of two childhood friends, Fran��ois and Janille. Fran��ois is a young man who is deeply in love with Janille, but she is engaged to another man. Despite this, Fran��ois continues to pursue her and becomes increasingly obsessed with her.As the story progresses, Fran��ois becomes involved in a series of mysterious and supernatural events that seem to be connected to a nearby body of water known as the Devil's Pool. He begins to believe that the pool is cursed and that he is being haunted by the devil himself. Meanwhile, Janille becomes increasingly concerned for Fran��ois' mental health and tries to help him overcome his fears.As the story reaches its climax, Fran��ois and Janille must confront the dark forces that are threatening their lives and their love for each other. The Devil's Pool is a haunting and atmospheric novel that explores themes of love, obsession, and the supernatural. It is considered one of George Sand's most memorable works and has been praised for its vivid descriptions and evocative prose.This Is A New Release Of The Original 1894 Edition.This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the old original and may contain some imperfections such as library marks and notations. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as part of our commitment for protecting, preserving, and promoting the world's literature in affordable, high quality, modern editions, that are true to their original work.

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Author's commentary about this book:

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.

I have said somewhere, and must now repeat, that pastoral life has always been the ideal of cities and of the courts of kings. I have attempted nothing new in following the easy path which brings back civilised man to the charms of primitive life. I have not tried to invent a new language nor to affect a new style, though many newspaper articles have told me so. I understand my own intentions better than anybody else can, and I am continually surprised that criticism should be so far-seeking, when the simplest ideas and most trivial circumstances are all that inspire the creations of art. Especially as regards The Devil's Pool, as I have related in the introduction, an engraving of Holbein, that had struck me, and a real scene that I had before my eyes at the same time, while the men were sowing the crops, were all that induced me to write the modest story laid among the humble landscapes of my daily walks.

If I am asked what I meant to do, I shall answer that I meant to write a very touching and very simple story, and that I have not succeeded to my satisfaction. I have indeed seen and felt the beauty of simplicity, but seeing and describing are not the same thing. The best the artist can hope for is to persuade those who have eyes to see for themselves. Look at what is simple, my kind reader; look at the sky, the fields, the trees, and at what is good and true in the peasants; you will catch a glimpse of them in my book but you will see them much better in nature.

George Sand. Nohant, the twelfth of April, 1851.

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