Don't let the name fool you -- French author George Sand was not only a woman, she was a woman who was decades ahead of her time when it came to her disregard of social mores and standards of behavior. Her trailblazing take on life is on full display...
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Don't let the name fool you -- French author George Sand was not only a woman, she was a woman who was decades ahead of her time when it came to her disregard of social mores and standards of behavior. Her trailblazing take on life is on full display in The Devil's Pool, an unconventional romance of sorts in which Sand explores the stifling patriarchal traditions that often served virtually to imprison rural French women in the nineteenth century
Title; Contents; Notice; I - The Author to the Reader; II - The Ploughing; III - Père Maurice; IV - Germain, the Cunning Ploughman; V - La Guillette; VI - Petit-Pierre; VII - On the Moor; VIII - Under the Great Oaks; IX - The Evening Prayer; X - Despite the Cold; XI - In the Open Air; XII - The Village Lioness; XIII - The Master; XIV - The Old Woman; XV - The Return to the Farm; XVI - Mère Maurice; XVII - Little Marie; Appendix; Endnotes;
