{"product_id":"the-precious-lies-of-madeleine-eleanor-knowles-dugan-9780979099403","title":"The Precious Lies of Madeleine de Scud駻y: Her Admirable and Infuriating Life. Book 1","description":"Madeleine de Scud駻y was the bestselling novelist in seventeenth-century Europe, translated into a half-dozen languages including English and Arabic. She was forced to publish under her brother's name and achieved such fame that he was elected to the Acad駑ie Fran軋ise. She lived in a time of dark savagery and cynicism, yet she persisted in believing in kindness, compassion, loyalty, and joy. She sought absolute anonymity and gained only notoriety. And for what was she notorious? For profligacy and prudery, for passionate sensuality and icy frigidity, for arrogance and shyness, for vanity and modesty, for outrageous falsehoods and painful honesty. She was accused of corrupting the morals of the most licentious age since Caligula's, and then accused (by the same enemies) of being a virgin! She spoke out eloquently against the slavery of marriage and love, and she became involved in one of the most profound, impassioned, intense, enduring, and unlikely love affairs in history. She was a meek and servile woman who enraged her inferiors, an arrogant poseur who delighted princes, a forceful feminist who sulked and flirted and pretended to be stupid. Ridiculed for being dour, crabbed, and humorless, she beguiled, enchanted, enthralled. She was, in short, a paragon of paradox. And she has been utterly forgotten.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Eleanor Knowles Dugan\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0979099404\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780979099403\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Grand Cyrus Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 08\/06\/2009\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 224\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.74lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.02h x 5.98w x 0.51d","brand":"Eleanor Knowles Dugan","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":43980731646207,"sku":"9780979099403","price":12.5,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_3384f5a0-fba1-4559-be50-84a805cb2965.jpg?v=1683251566","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/the-precious-lies-of-madeleine-eleanor-knowles-dugan-9780979099403","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}