{"product_id":"2940015762662","title":"Diary of a Pilgrimage: A Satire, Fiction and Literature Classic By Jerome K. Jerome! AAA+++","description":"Excerpt:\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eSaid a friend of mine to me some months ago: \"Well now, why don't you write a SENSIBLE book? I should like to see you make people think.\"\u003cbr\u003e\"Do you believe it can be done, then?\" I asked.\u003cbr\u003e\"Well, try,\" he replied.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAccordingly, I have tried. This is a sensible book. I want you to understand that. This is a book to improve your mind. In this book I tell you all about Germany--at all events, all I know about Germany--and the Ober-Ammergau Passion Play. I also tell you about other things. I do not tell you all I know about all these other things, because I do not want to swamp you with knowledge. I wish to lead you gradually. When you have learnt this book, you can come again, and I will tell you some more. I should only be defeating my own object did I, by making you think too much at first, give you a perhaps, lasting dislike to the exercise. I have purposely put the matter in a light and attractive form, so that I may secure the attention of the young and the frivolous. I do not want them to notice, as they go on, that they are being instructed; and I have, therefore, endeavoured to disguise from them, so far as is practicable, that this is either an exceptionally clever or an exceptionally useful work. I want to do them good without their knowing it. I want to do you all good--to improve your minds and to make you think, if I can.\u003cbr\u003eWHAT you will think after you have read the book, I do not want to know; indeed, I would rather not know. It will be sufficient reward for me to feel that I have done my duty, and to receive a percentage on the gross sales.\u003cbr\u003eLONDON, March, 1891.","brand":"BDP","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47074309996784,"sku":"2940015762662","price":1.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/2940015762662_p0.jpg?v=1763624103","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/2940015762662","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}