{"product_id":"2940013414426","title":"THE WEAVERS","description":"CONTENTS\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e  BOOK I\u003cbr\u003e  I.        AS THE SPIRIT MOVED\u003cbr\u003e  II.       THE GATES OF THE WORLD\u003cbr\u003e  III.      BANISHED\u003cbr\u003e  IV.       THE CALL\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e  BOOK II\u003cbr\u003e  V.        THE WIDER WAY\u003cbr\u003e  VI.       \"HAST THOU NEVER BILLED A MANY\"\u003cbr\u003e  VII.      THE COMPACT\u003cbr\u003e  VIII.     FOR HIS SOUL'S SAKE AND THE LAND'S SAKE\u003cbr\u003e  IX.       THE LETTER, THE NIGHT, AND THE WOMAN\u003cbr\u003e  X.        THE FOUR WHO KNEW\u003cbr\u003e  XI.       AGAINST THE HOUR OF MIDNIGHT\u003cbr\u003e  XII.      THE JEHAD AND THE LIONS\u003cbr\u003e  XIII.     ACHMET THE ROPEMAKER STRIKES\u003cbr\u003e  XIV.      BEYOND THE PALE\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e  BOOK III\u003cbr\u003e  XV.       SOOLSBY'S HAND UPON THE CURTAIN\u003cbr\u003e  XVI.      THE DEBT AND THE ACCOUNTING\u003cbr\u003e  XVII.     THE WOMAN OF THE CROSS-ROADS\u003cbr\u003e  XVIII.    TIME, THE IDOL-BREAKER\u003cbr\u003e  XIX.      SHARPER THAN A SWORD\u003cbr\u003e  XX.       EACH AFTER HIS OWN ORDER\u003cbr\u003e  XXI.      \"THERE IS NOTHING HIDDEN WHICH SHALL NOT BE REVEALED\"\u003cbr\u003e  XXII.     AS IN A GLASS DARKLY\u003cbr\u003e  XXIII.    THE TENTS OF CUSHAN\u003cbr\u003e  XXIV.     THE QUESTIONER\u003cbr\u003e  XXV.      THE VOICE THROUGH THE DOOR\u003cbr\u003e  XXVI.     \"I OWE YOU NOTHING\"\u003cbr\u003e  XXVII.    THE AWAKENING\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e  BOOK IV\u003cbr\u003e  XXVIII.   NAHOUM TURNS THE SCREW\u003cbr\u003e  XXIX.     THE RECOIL\u003cbr\u003e  XXX.      LACEY MOVES\u003cbr\u003e  XXXI.     THE STRUGGLE IN THE DESERT\u003cbr\u003e  XXXII.    FORTY STRIPES SAVE ONE\u003cbr\u003e  XXXIII.   THE DARK INDENTURE\u003cbr\u003e  XXXIV.    NAHOUM DROPS THE MASK\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e  BOOK V\u003cbr\u003e  XXXV.     THE FLIGHT OF THE WOUNDED\u003cbr\u003e  XXXVI.    \"IS IT ALWAYS SO-IN LIFE?\"\u003cbr\u003e  XXXVII.   THE FLYING SHUTTLE\u003cbr\u003e  XXXVIII.  JASPER KIMBER SPEAKS\u003cbr\u003e  XXXIX.    FAITH JOURNEYS TO LONDON\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e  BOOK VI\u003cbr\u003e  XL.       HYLDA SEEKS NAHOUM\u003cbr\u003e  XLI.      IN THE LAND OF SHINAR\u003cbr\u003e  XLII.     THE LOOM OF DESTINY\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eINTRODUCTION\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eWhen I turn over the hundreds of pages of this book, I have a feeling\u003cbr\u003ethat I am looking upon something for which I have no particular\u003cbr\u003eresponsibility, though it has a strange contour of familiarity. It is as\u003cbr\u003ethough one looks upon a scene in which one had lived and moved, with the\u003cbr\u003efriendly yet half-distant feeling that it once was one's own possession\u003cbr\u003ebut is so no longer. I should think the feeling to be much like that of\u003cbr\u003ethe old man whose sons, gone to distant places, have created their\u003cbr\u003eown plantations of life and have themselves become the masters of\u003cbr\u003epossessions. Also I suppose that when I read the story through again\u003cbr\u003efrom the first page to the last, I shall recreate the feeling in which\u003cbr\u003eI lived when I wrote it, and it will become a part of my own identity\u003cbr\u003eagain. That distance between himself and his work, however, which\u003cbr\u003eimmediately begins to grow as soon as a book leaves the author's hands\u003cbr\u003efor those of the public, is a thing which, I suppose, must come to one\u003cbr\u003ewho produces a work of the imagination. It is no doubt due to the fact\u003cbr\u003ethat every piece of art which has individuality and real likeness to\u003cbr\u003ethe scenes and character it is intended to depict is done in a kind of\u003cbr\u003etrance. The author, in effect, self-hypnotises himself, has created\u003cbr\u003ean atmosphere which is separate and apart from that of his daily\u003cbr\u003esurroundings, and by virtue of his imagination becomes absorbed in\u003cbr\u003ethat atmosphere. When the book is finished and it goes forth, when the\u003cbr\u003eimagination is relaxed and the concentration of mind is withdrawn, the\u003cbr\u003eatmosphere disappears, and then. One experiences what I feel when I take\u003cbr\u003eup 'The Weavers' and, in a sense, wonder how it was done, such as it is.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe frontispiece of the English edition represents a scene in the House\u003cbr\u003eof Commons, and this brings to my mind a warning which was given me\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003esimilar to that on my entering new fields outside the one in which\u003cbr\u003eI first made a reputation in fiction. When, in a certain year, I\u003cbr\u003edetermined that I would enter the House of Commons I had many friends\u003cbr\u003ewho, in effect, wailed and gnashed their teeth. They said that it would\u003cbr\u003ebe the death of my imaginative faculties; that I should never write\u003cbr\u003eanything any more; that all the qualities which make literature living\u003cbr\u003eand compelling would disappear. I thought this was all wrong then, and\u003cbr\u003eI know it is all wrong now. Political life does certainly interfere\u003cbr\u003ewith the amount of work which an author may produce.","brand":"SAP","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47147524358384,"sku":"2940013414426","price":0.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/2940013414426_p0.jpg?v=1763581063","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/2940013414426","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}