{"product_id":"funestine-paperback-1","title":"Funestine - Paperback","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eBrian Stableford\u003c\/b\u003e (Editor), \u003cb\u003eCatherine de Lintot\u003c\/b\u003e (Author), \u003cb\u003ePierre-Francois Godard de Beauchamps\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe remarkable stories included in this volume, published in the 1730s, show a marked evolution in the contes de f es, each being more substantial, and more imaginatively innovative than its predecessor.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAlthough they clearly attempt to take up where Baronne d'Aulnoy and Comtesse de Murat had been forced to leave off, in terms of their imaginative extravagance, their use of metamorphoses and their quirky employment of allegory exhibit a further development in the direction of the calculatedly absurd and the surreal.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThese are not the only works of the period to extrapolate its licensed disorder to the chaotic brink of surrealism, but they do so more self-consciously than most. The stories gathered herein provide an intriguing kaleidoscopic pattern, and can justly be reckoned to be more than the sum of their parts.\u003c\/p\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 288\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.65 x 8 x 5 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e December 01, 2018\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47247452799225,"sku":"9781612278124","price":33.05,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0789\/2782\/3097\/files\/TVZBV21ld0YxZnRVb3lrV1R6Uk5PUT09_13e9d0f8-12cd-4595-9c41-d75087e5869d.webp?v=1768626456","url":"https:\/\/bookscloud.io\/products\/funestine-paperback-1","provider":"BooksCloud Book Dropshipping","version":"1.0","type":"link"}