{"product_id":"2940016137216","title":"The Mating of Lydia","description":"\"The Mating of Lydia\" is a simple story, told in the spirited, human way.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThere are four principal characters and a mystery. A struggling young barrister, Claude Faversham, who is in love with Lydia Penford, the heroine, has ambitious ideas for improving the conditions of the poor tenants on the estate of an old millionaire named Melrose. Lydia is an idealistic young woman of artistic sensibilities and she is courted by Faversham and an attractive, poetic nobleman, Lord Tatham. The millionaire, Melrose, who plays the part of the heavy villain, tries to \"buy off\" Faversham by promising to make him his heir. This, however, does not improve the young man's chances with Lydia. Just then the old man is discovered murdered, and there is the mystery to unravel, which Mrs. Ward proceeds to do with her usual skill. All these story people are real in Mrs. Ward's best style, and the movement of the novel is natural and smooth.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e*****\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e10 Images consisting of Illustrations, Logotypes, and Printermarks by Charles E. Brock\u003cbr\u003eA Photographic Portrait of Author Mrs. Humphry Ward from \"The Critic: An Illustrated Monthly Review of Literature, Art and Life\" (1901) \u003cbr\u003eItalics, Paragraph Separators, use of en\/em dashes and other special punctuation marks are consistent with the Doubleday, Page \u0026amp; Company edition of 1913","brand":"OGB","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47184029122800,"sku":"2940016137216","price":0.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/2940016137216_p0.jpg?v=1763629454","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/2940016137216","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}