The Devil's Pool

Author(s): George Sand, George Burnham Ives

Genre(s): General Fiction

Narrators: J. M. Smallheer

Number of Chapters: 8

Length: 3 hours and 35 minutes

Language: English

George Sand (the pen name of Amantine-Lucile-Aurore Dupin 1804-1876) is famous for flaunting the conventions of behavior expected of women of her standing in France at the time and for her numerous romantic liaisons including her long standing affair with Frederic Chopin. The Devil’s Pool (published in 1846 as La Mare au Diable) is one of several short pastoral novels drawn from her childhood experiences in the rural French region of Berri. It tells the story of a young widower, Germain, who, at the insistence of his father-in-law, sets out to remarry so that he will have someone to help raise his three young children. (Summary by J. M. Smallheer)

Une version française est disponible : La mare au diable.