{"product_id":"2940013681248","title":"The Pearl of Love","description":"The pearl is lovelier than the most brilliant of crystalline stones, the\u003cbr\u003emoralist declares, because it is made through the suffering of a living\u003cbr\u003ecreature. About that I can say nothing because I feel none of the\u003cbr\u003efascination of pearls. Their cloudy lustre moves me not at all. Nor can\u003cbr\u003eI decide for myself upon that agelong dispute whether The Pearl of Love\u003cbr\u003eis the cruellest of stories or only a gracious fable of the immortality\u003cbr\u003eof beauty.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eBoth the story and the controversy will be familiar to students of\u003cbr\u003emediaeval Persian prose. The story is a short one, though the commentary\u003cbr\u003eupon it is a respectable part of the literature of that period. They\u003cbr\u003ehave treated it as a poetic invention and they have treated it as an\u003cbr\u003eallegory meaning this, that, or the other thing. Theologians have had\u003cbr\u003etheir copious way with it, dealing with it particularly as concerning\u003cbr\u003ethe restoration of the body after death, and it has been greatly used as\u003cbr\u003ea parable by those who write about aesthetics. And many have held it to\u003cbr\u003ebe the statement of a fact, simply and baldly true.","brand":"WDS Publishing","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47068909306096,"sku":"2940013681248","price":2.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/2940013681248","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}