The Devil's Pool

Sand pse, Title George Title George Sand pse,

ISBN 10: 1406800341 / ISBN 13: 9781406800340

Published by Echo Library -, 2006

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: The Devil's Pool
• Publisher: Echo Library -
• Publication Date: 2006
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1406800341
• ISBN 13: 9781406800340
• Binding: paperback
• Condition: Very Good

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Synopsis

George Sand, the pen name of Amantine Lucile Aurore Dupin (1804-76), was a French novelist, memoirist and socialist, recognised as one of the most notable writers of the European Romantic era. She was born in Paris and raised for much of her childhood by her grandmother at her estate in the province of Berry, which Sand later used as the setting for many of her novels. She adopted an unconventional lifestyle, donning male attire and smoking in public, and in 1831 left her husband, whom she had married at 18 in 1822, to enter upon a period of 'romantic rebellion' before legally separating in 1835 and taking custody of their two children. She had affairs with a number of prominent literary figures including Prosper Merimee and Alfred de Musset, and a long relationship with the composer, Chopin. By the age of 27 she was the most popular writer in Europe, remaining immensely influential throughout her lifetime and long after her death. In 1836 the first of several compendia of her writings was published in 24 volumes and in total four separate editions of her 'Complete Works' were published in her lifetime. The Devil's Pool (La Mare au Diable, 1846) is the first in a series of four pastoral novels based on Sand's childhood. It was followed by Francois le Champi (1847), La Petite Fadette (1849), and Les Beaux Messieurs Bois-Dore (1857).

About the Author

George Sand is the pen name of Amantine Lucile Aurore Dupin, Baroness Dudevant, a 19th century French novelist and memoirist. Sand is best known for her novels Indiana, L?lia, and Consuelo, and for her memoir A Winter in Majorca, in which she reflects on her time on the island with Chopin in 1838-39. A champion of the poor and working classes, Sand was an early socialist who published her own newspaper using a workers co-operative and scorned gender conventions by wearing men s clothing and smoking tobacco in public. George Sand died in France in 1876.