{"product_id":"the-mask-of-the-prophet-andrew-martin-9780198157984","title":"The Mask of the Prophet: The Extraordinary Fictions of Jules Verne","description":"This provocative new study contends that Jules Verne was indeed more than just a writer of science fiction or harmless fantasies for children. Placing him squarely within the center of a strong literary tradition, Martin convincingly shows that a recurrent narrative, describing the strange destiny of a masked prophet who revolts against an empire, runs throughout Verne's \u003cem\u003eVoyages extraordinaires.\u003c\/em\u003e This theme, Martin argues, illuminates the paradoxes of realism and invention, repression and transgression, and imperialism and anarchy. Verne emerges not only as a key to the political and literary imagination of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, but as a model for fiction in general.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Andrew Martin\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0198157983\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780198157984\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e OUP Oxford\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 08\/16\/1990\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 236\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.00lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.50h x 5.50w x 0.69d","brand":"Andrew Martin","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":48457658106111,"sku":"9780198157984","price":235.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_d15ccab2-464c-4229-8fad-81330a09c6c2.jpg?v=1777400345","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/the-mask-of-the-prophet-andrew-martin-9780198157984","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}