The cover page is adapted from Ploughing in the Nivernais, a painting completed in 1849 by Rosa Bonheur. The cover and title pages feature the League Spartan and Sorts Mill Goudy typefaces created in 2014 and 2009 by The League of Moveable Type. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rosa_Bonheurwww.theleagueofmoveabletype.com/
The Devil’s Pool
Chapters (19)
- Notice 0:00
- The Author to the Reader 2:29
- I: The Tillage of the Soil 11:36
- II: Father Maurice 29:17
- III: Germain, the Skilled Husbandman 36:33
- IV: Mother Guillette 47:13
- V: Petit-Pierre 55:23
- VI: On the Heath 1:08:48
- VII: Underneath the Big Oaks 1:19:15
- VIII: The Evening Prayer 1:30:33
- IX: Despite the Cold 1:37:58
- X: Beneath the Stars 1:51:08
- XI: The Belle of the Village 2:04:16
- XII: The Master 2:11:45
- XIII: The Old Woman 2:23:37
- XIV: The Return to the Farm 2:34:17
- XV: Mother Maurice 2:42:26
- XVI: Little Marie 2:49:21
- Appendix 2:55:02
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Germain, a late-twenties widower, still lives with his late wife’s family. Germain’s father-in-law Maurice decides that two years is long enough to grieve; Germain needs a wife, and his children need a mother. Maurice has investigated, and found what he believes is a suitable match in a neighboring village. He sends Germain off to meet the woman, and on the way drops off a teenage girl at the farm where she has been newly employed. The rest of the novel demonstrates the old aphorism of “the best-laid plans... often go awry.”
The Devil’s Pool is the first of four pastoral novels that George Sand originally intended to release together. They were inspired by the community in which she was raised.