{"product_id":"alfred-de-musset-alfred-de-musset-9781840025866","title":"Alfred de Musset: Seven Plays: Marianne; Fantasio; Don't Trifle with Love; The Candlestick; A Diversion; A Door Must Be Kept Open or Shut; You Can't T","description":"\u003cp\u003eMarianne, Fantasio, Don't Trifle With Love, The Candlestick, A Diversion, A Door Must be Open or Shut, You Can't Think of Everything \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThe seven plays in this collection share a light-hearted tone, though with occasional and unexpected moments of seriousness. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eIn Marianne, a confirmed cynic intercedes with a married woman on behalf of his best friend. In the eponymous hero of the modern 'fairy tale' Fantasio, by turns imaginative, abrupt and perceptive, Musset provides us with a compelling self-portrait. Don't Trifle with Love shows the dangerous strategems of two childhood sweethearts, supposedly destined for marriage. In The Candlestick, an infatuated clerk is set up as a decoy by his employer's young wife and her lover. The one-act plays A Diversion, A Door Must be Open or Shut and You Can't Think of Everything deal, in witty, epigrammatic style, with various aspects of romance: a wife and her friend test her husband's fidelity, or lack of it; a man wants to propose to his bantering, blasé hostess; and a couple in love, one absent-minded, the other forgetful, tries to concentrate long enough to get married.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Alfred de Musset\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1840025867\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781840025866\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Oberon Books\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 10\/01\/2006\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 280\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.81lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.30h x 5.20w x 0.69d","brand":"Alfred de Musset","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":48065842086143,"sku":"9781840025866","price":21.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_62dce8d3-043f-49fd-b9e2-14b257c5809e.jpg?v=1768677602","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/alfred-de-musset-alfred-de-musset-9781840025866","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}