{"product_id":"2940014073172","title":"Peter Binney","description":"It is over twenty years since “Peter Binney” was first published in England, and I should be unwilling to offer it to my American readers at this time of day without some plea for leniency towards a young man’s book, which contains perhaps more than the average number of crudities to be found in such beginnings.  A few of the crudities I have been able to soften, but if you begin tampering with early work in the light of maturer knowledge, you are very apt to rub off the bloom that attaches to it just because it is early work, written with spirit and freshness, though with little skill.  So I have left “Peter Binney” much as it was, with most of its imperfections on its head, and I trust some compensating merits.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eOne merit I know it to possess.  It presents a picture of the lighter side of undergraduate life as it was in Oxford and Cambridge, and as it still exists, in spite of superficial changes; and that is something that can only be done by a young man, whose memories are still fresh, and to whom that life is still important enough to make it the basis of a story.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eNew York, July, 1921\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eChapter 1. Mr. Binney Makes up His Mind\u003cbr\u003eChapter 2. Mr. Binney Interviews One Tutor and Engages Another\u003cbr\u003eChapter 3. Lucius Wins a Year’s Respite\u003cbr\u003eChapter 4. No Help to Be Gained From Mrs. Higginbotham\u003cbr\u003eChapter 5. Mr. Binney Arrives In Cambridge\u003cbr\u003eChapter 6. Lord Blathgowrie Has Something to Say\u003cbr\u003eChapter 7. Mr. Binney Speaks at the Union and Makes a Distinguished Acquaintance\u003cbr\u003eChapter 8. The Newnham Girl\u003cbr\u003eChapter 9. Me. Binney Gives a Dinner and Receives a Rebuff\u003cbr\u003eChapter 10. “The New Court Chronicle”\u003cbr\u003eChapter 11. “Put Him in the Fountain”\u003cbr\u003eChapter 12. Lucius Makes One Discovery and Mrs. Toller Another\u003cbr\u003eChapter 13. Mr. Binney Gets into Trouble\u003cbr\u003eChapter 14. Nemesis\u003cbr\u003eChapter 15. Lucius Finds a Backwater\u003cbr\u003eChapter 16. Third Trinity Makes a Bump\u003cbr\u003eChapter 17. Mr. Binney Drinks the Health of a “Blue”","brand":"Denise Henry","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47079940620528,"sku":"2940014073172","price":1.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/2940014073172_p0.jpg?v=1763600187","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/2940014073172","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}