{"product_id":"savage-reprisals-peter-gay-9780393325096","title":"Savage Reprisals: Bleak House, Madame Bovary, Buddenbrooks","description":"Focusing on three literary masterpieces--Charles Dickens's \u003cem\u003eBleak House\u003c\/em\u003e (1853), Gustave Flaubert's \u003cem\u003eMadame Bovary\u003c\/em\u003e (1857), and Thomas Mann's \u003cem\u003eBuddenbrooks\u003c\/em\u003e (1901)--Peter Gay, a leading cultural historian, demonstrates that there is more than one way to read a novel.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Typically, readers believe that fiction, especially the Realist novels that dominated Western culture for most of the nineteenth century and beyond, is based on historical truth and that great novels possess a documentary value. That trust, Gay brilliantly shows, is misplaced; novels take their own path to reality. Using Dickens, Flaubert, and Mann as his examples, Gay explores their world, their craftsmanship, and their minds. In the process, he discovers that all three share one overriding quality: a resentment and rage against the society that sustains the novel itself. Using their stylish writing as a form of revenge, they deal out savage reprisals, which have become part of our Western literary canon. A \u003cem\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/em\u003e Notable Book and a Best Book of 2002.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Peter Gay\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0393325091\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780393325096\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e W. W. Norton \u0026amp; Company\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 12\/01\/2003\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 194\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.39lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.42h x 5.74w x 0.47d","brand":"Peter Gay","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":44119661314303,"sku":"9780393325096","price":20.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_84eb1acf-0f86-424b-aeba-560fedda4682.jpg?v=1687410335","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/savage-reprisals-peter-gay-9780393325096","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}