{"product_id":"2940013374850","title":"Rasselas","description":"CHAPTER I--DESCRIPTION OF A PALACE IN A VALLEY.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eYe who listen with credulity to the whispers of fancy, and pursue\u003cbr\u003ewith eagerness the phantoms of hope; who expect that age will\u003cbr\u003eperform the promises of youth, and that the deficiencies of the\u003cbr\u003epresent day will be supplied by the morrow, attend to the history\u003cbr\u003eof Rasselas, Prince of Abyssinia.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eRasselas was the fourth son of the mighty Emperor in whose\u003cbr\u003edominions the father of waters begins his course--whose bounty\u003cbr\u003epours down the streams of plenty, and scatters over the world the\u003cbr\u003eharvests of Egypt.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAccording to the custom which has descended from age to age among\u003cbr\u003ethe monarchs of the torrid zone, Rasselas was confined in a private\u003cbr\u003epalace, with the other sons and daughters of Abyssinian royalty,\u003cbr\u003etill the order of succession should call him to the throne.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe place which the wisdom or policy of antiquity had destined for\u003cbr\u003ethe residence of the Abyssinian princes was a spacious valley in\u003cbr\u003ethe kingdom of Amhara, surrounded on every side by mountains, of\u003cbr\u003ewhich the summits overhang the middle part.  The only passage by\u003cbr\u003ewhich it could be entered was a cavern that passed under a rock, of\u003cbr\u003ewhich it had long been disputed whether it was the work of nature\u003cbr\u003eor of human industry.  The outlet of the cavern was concealed by a\u003cbr\u003ethick wood, and the mouth which opened into the valley was closed\u003cbr\u003ewith gates of iron, forged by the artificers of ancient days, so\u003cbr\u003emassive that no man, without the help of engines, could open or\u003cbr\u003eshut them.","brand":"SAP","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47145566929136,"sku":"2940013374850","price":0.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/2940013374850_p0.jpg?v=1763580403","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/2940013374850","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}