{"product_id":"2940014414876","title":"Beauty and the Beast","description":"Excerpt\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Well, (said she to herself,) I see they will not let my time hang heavy on my hands for want of amusement.\" Then she reflected, \"Were I but to stay here a day, there would not have been all these preparations.\" This consideration inspired her with fresh courage; and opening the library, she took a book, and read these words in letters of gold:--\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\/* \"Welcome, Beauty, banish fear, You are queen and mistress here; Speak your wishes, speak your will, Swift obedience meets them still.\" \/*\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Alas, (said she, with a sigh,) there is nothing I desire so much as to see my poor father, and to know what he is doing.\" She had no sooner said this, when casting her eyes on a great looking-glass, to her great amazement she saw her own home, where her father arrived with a very dejected countenance; her sisters went to meet him, and, notwithstanding their endeavours to appear sorrowful, their joy, felt for having got rid of their sister...","brand":"Sheba Blake Publishing","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47178171547888,"sku":"2940014414876","price":3.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/2940014414876_p0.jpg?v=1763607971","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/2940014414876","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}