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"Mattea était une fort belle créature, âgée de quatorze ans seulement, mais déjà très développée et très convoitée par tous les galants de Venise. Ser Zacomo, son père, ne la vantait point au-delà de ses mérites en déclarant que c'était un véritable trésor, une fille sage, réservée, laborieuse, intelligente."

C'est en quatre jours que George Sand écrit "La mare au diable". Roman "rustique" ancré dans le Berry autour de son cher Nohant qu'elle a toujours autant de joie à faire découvrir à Frédéric Chopin. Région qu'il aime en retour, à sa façon un peu distante, parce que l'âme de la vallée noire lui parle un peu de Pologne, songe toujours entrevu, terre de son âme sempiternellement exilé !

A wonderful selection of some of the most bizarre and unsettling stories ever written.

La petite Fadette, libro di George Sand pubblicato nel 1829, è ambientato nella Francia rurale ottocentesca e parla di due fratelli gemelli e di Fadette, piccola emarginata; diremmo , oggi, una guaritrice, additata dai compaesani come strega e in realtà rofondamente religiosa e anticonvenzionale, anche se tollerante delle convinzioni tradizionali degli altri.Cornice musicale: notturno n. 8 di Chopin.

A wonderful collection of great classic love stories for the incurable romantic in all of us. "The Scrupulous Father" by George Gissing, "The Marquise" by George Sand, "Her Lover" by Maxim Gorky, "A Long-Ago Affair" by John Galsworthy, "A Dill Pickle" by Katherine Mansfield, "Portrait of a Lady" by Jerome K. Jerome, "The Pig and Whistle" by George Gissing, "A Race for a Bride" by H. K. Hales, "The Christmas Tree and the Wedding" by Fyodor Dostoyevsky, "The Girl Who Was Tired of Love" by Leonard Merrick...

With his wife dead and three young children to raise, ploughman Germaine decides that the time has come to marry again. He embarks on a journey to meet a rich widow, Catherine Leonard, in a match that has been approved by his father-in-law; however, he finds her proud and vain and surrounded by other suitors. Germaine prefers the company of Marie, a young shepherdess from his own village, but she is insistent that she wants a younger, more suitable husband.