{"product_id":"2940013295803","title":"This Freedom","description":"CONTENTS\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePART ONE--HOUSE OF MEN\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePART TWO--HOUSE OF WOMEN\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePART THREE--HOUSE OF CHILDREN\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePART FOUR--HOUSE OF CARDS\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePART ONE--HOUSE OF MEN\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eCHAPTER I\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eRosalie's earliest apprehension of the world was of a mysterious\u003cbr\u003eand extraordinary world that revolved entirely about her father\u003cbr\u003eand that entirely and completely belonged to her father. Under her\u003cbr\u003efather, all males had proprietory rights in the world and dominion\u003cbr\u003eover it; no females owned any part of the world or could do anything\u003cbr\u003ewith it. All the males in this world--her father, and Robert and\u003cbr\u003eHarold her brothers, and all the other boys and men one sometimes\u003cbr\u003esaw--did mysterious and extraordinary things; and all the females\u003cbr\u003ein this world--her mother, and Anna and Flora and Hilda her sisters,\u003cbr\u003eand Ellen the cook and Gertrude the maid--did ordinary and unexciting\u003cbr\u003eand generally rather tiresome things. All the males were like story\u003cbr\u003ebooks to Rosalie: you never knew what they were going to do next;\u003cbr\u003eand all the females were like lesson books: they just went on and\u003cbr\u003eon and on.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eRosalie always stared at men when she saw them. Extraordinary and\u003cbr\u003ewonderful creatures who could do what they liked and were always\u003cbr\u003edoing mysterious and wonderful things, especially and above all\u003cbr\u003eher father.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eBeing with her father was like being with a magician or like watching\u003cbr\u003ea conjuror on the stage. You never knew what he was going to do\u003cbr\u003enext. Whatever he suddenly did was never surprising in the sense of\u003cbr\u003ebeing startling, for (this cannot be emphasised too much) nothing\u003cbr\u003eher father did was ever surprising to Rosalie; but it was surprising\u003cbr\u003ein the sense of being absorbingly wonderful and enthralling. Even\u003cbr\u003ebetter than reading when she first began to read, and far better\u003cbr\u003ethan anything in the world before the mysteries in books were\u003cbr\u003ediscoverable, Rosalie liked to sit and stare at her father and\u003cbr\u003ethink how wonderful he was and wonder what extraordinary thing he\u003cbr\u003ewould do next. Everything belonged to him. The whole of life was\u003cbr\u003eordered with a view to what he would think about it. The whole\u003cbr\u003eof life was continually thrown off its balance and whirled into\u003cbr\u003ethe most entrancing convulsions by sudden activities of this most\u003cbr\u003ewonderful man.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eEntrancing convulsions! Wonderful, wonderful father with a bull\u003cbr\u003eafter him! Why, that was her very earliest recollection of him!\u003cbr\u003eThat showed you how wonderful he was! Father, seen for the first\u003cbr\u003etime (as it were) flying before a bull! Bounding wildly across a\u003cbr\u003efield towards her with a bull after him! Wonderful father! Did her\u003cbr\u003emother ever rush along in front of a bull? Never. Was it possible\u003cbr\u003eto imagine any of the women she knew rushing before a bull? It\u003cbr\u003ewas not possible. To see a woman rushing before a bull would have\u003cbr\u003ealarmed Rosalie for she would have felt it was unnatural; but for\u003cbr\u003eher father to be bounding wildly along in front of a bull seemed\u003cbr\u003eto her perfectly natural and ordinary and she was not in the least\u003cbr\u003ealarmed; only, as always, enthralled.","brand":"SAP","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47162429309168,"sku":"2940013295803","price":0.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/2940013295803_p0.jpg?v=1763579055","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/2940013295803","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}