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Paperback. Condición: F/ F/ND. y 1st Edn. Thus 1st. Imp. SOFTBACK SHIPPED FROM THE UK.* Edition: 1st. Thus (translated from the french).* Impression: 1st * Date of Publication: 2005 (1846). * Publisher: Hesperus Press Classics.* Binding and cover condition: Mono photo-illustrated stiff card covers with French flaps. White titles to face and black to cream spine strip. No shelf wear or creases to spine, none to hinge. FINE * Contents condition: PRIVATE COPY NOT EX-LIBRARY, Clean, crisp tight & bright. No annotations, marks or inscriptions, no tanning or other visible faults. No age darkening to page margins or edges. FINE. * Illustrations: None.* Pages: 115pp. text. xix pp. notes, biographical note, advertisements of other available titles at rear. * Product Description:- When Germain ? a shy but handsome widower ? is sent by his father-in-law to find himself a wife, he sets out on his journey with a heavy heart. The prospective spouse is said to be rich, with land and a tidy dowry. But Germain fears for the fate of his three angelic children ? and for the state of his own bruised heart. Everything changes during his voyage ? through a dark wood and around a haunted marsh ? when Germain falls passionately in love with an impoverished young shepherdess. Should he follow his heart, and woo the girl he now loves? Or please his family by marrying a rich but disdainful Widow? A love song to the French countryside ? a provocative romance of wo simple hearts ? The Devil's Pool is above all a paen to an antique language and way of life which, even in 1844, was being eroded by industrialisation and the inexorable expansion of a national identity.* This is a FINE copy of the 1st/1st thus with no visible faults. 2005-01-01. n.