The Devil's Pool
By Sand, George

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Categories:	Undefined, Literary Criticism & Collections, General Fiction, Literary Collections
ISBN:	9781443229180, 9781420919660, 9781421895451
Publisher:	Books LLC, Digireads.com, 1st World Library - Literary Society
Language:	English

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Excerpt: GEORGE SAND THE DEVIL'S POOL Chapter V He saw my little Marie watching her three sheep on the common land. BIBLIOTHQUE DES CHEFS-D'OEUVRE DU ROMAN CONTEMPORAIN THE DEVIL'S POOL GEORGE SAND PRINTED FOR SUBSCRIBERS ONLY BY GEORGE BARRIE SONS, Philadelphia COPYRIGHT, 1901, BY GEORGE BARRIE SON THIS EDITION OF THE DEVIL'S POOL HAS BEEN COMPLETELY TRANSLATED BY GEORGE B. IVES THE ETCHINGS AND DRAWINGS ARE BY EDMOND RUDAUX NOTICE When I began, with The Devil's Pool, a series of rustic pictures which I proposed to collect under the title of The Hemp-Beater's Tales, I had no theory, no purpose to effect a revolution in literature. No one can bring about a revolution by himself alone, and there are revolutions, especially in matters of art, which mankind accomplishes without any very clear idea how it is done, because everybody takes a hand in them. But this is not applicable to the romance of rustic manners: it has existed in all ages and under all forms, sometimes pompous, sometimes affected, sometimes artless. I have said, and I say again here: the dream of a country-life has always been the ideal of cities, aye, and of courts. I have done nothing new in following the incline that leads civilized man back to the charms of primitive life. I have not intended to invent a new language or to create a new style. I have been assured of the contrary in a large number of feuilletons, but I know better than any one what to think about my own plans, and I am always astonished that the critics dig so deep for them, when the simplest ideas, the most commonplace incidents, are the only inspirations to which the products of art owe their being. As for The Devil's Pool in particular, the incident that I have related in the preface, an engraving of Holbein's that had made an impression upon me, and a scene from real life that came under my eyes at the same moment, in sowing time,those were what impelled me to write this modest tale, the scene of which is laid amid...

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