La Mare au diable

Germain, a young widowed ploughman with three children, is sent by his father-in-law to meet a widow in a neighbouring village. On the way he takes along Marie, a poor sixteen-year-old girl going to work as a shepherdess, and his little son, who hid to come with them. Lost in the fog near the Devil's Pool, they spend the night by the fire, and Germain begins to see Marie differently. A short country novel by George Sand, simple and luminous.