{"product_id":"2940012055163","title":"War and Peace","description":"\"Well, Prince, so Genoa and Lucca are now just family estates of the Buonapartes. But I warn you, if you don't tell me that this means war, if you still try to defend the infamies and horrors perpetrated by that Antichrist--I really believe he is Antichrist--I will have nothing more to do with you and you are no longer my friend, no longer my 'faithful slave,' as you call yourself! But how do you do? I see I have frightened you--sit down and tell me all the news.\"\u003cbr\u003eIt was in July, 1805, and the speaker was the well-known Anna Pavlovna Scherer, maid of honor and favorite of the Empress Marya Fedorovna. With these words she greeted Prince Vasili Kuragin, a man of high rank and importance, who was the first to arrive at her reception. Anna Pavlovna had had a cough for some days. She was, as she said, suffering from la grippe; grippe being then a new word in St. Petersburg, used only by the elite.\u003cbr\u003eAll her invitations without exception, written in French, and delivered by a scarlet-liveried footman that morning, ran as follows:","brand":"New Century Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47183023538416,"sku":"2940012055163","price":0.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/2940012055163_p0.jpg?v=1763552044","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/2940012055163","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}