{"product_id":"2940011837050","title":"THE CONFESSION OF A FOOL","description":"Scanned, proofed and corrected from the original hardcover edition for enjoyable reading.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e***\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAn excerpt from the author's concluding remarks:  This is a terrible book, I fully admit it, and I regret that I ever wrote it.   How did I come to write it?   I had to wash my corpse before it was laid in its coffin.   Four years ago, if I remember rightly, a friend of mine, a writer, a declared enemy of the indiscretions— of others—said to me one day when talking about my first marriage—--   \u003cbr\u003e\"Do you know, it would make excellent copy for the sort of novel which I should like to write.\"   Certain of my friend's applause, I decided there and then to write it myself.   \"Don't be angry with me, dear old fellow, that I, as the original owner, make use of my property.\"   I also remember, it is twelve years ago now, a remark my future mother-in-law made to me one evening when I was watching her daughter carrying on a flirtation with a group of young men—--   \"Wouldn't she make a splendid heroine for a novel?\"   \"With what title?\"   \"A passionate woman!\"   Happy mother, who died in the nick of time, I have carried out your suggestion. The novel has been written. I can die in peace.","brand":"OGB","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47158573662448,"sku":"2940011837050","price":0.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/2940011837050_p0.jpg?v=1763550293","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/2940011837050","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}