{"product_id":"2940016795973","title":"Harold","description":"Excerpt\u003cbr\u003eThe idea of founding an historical romance on an event so important and so national as the Norman Invasion, I had long entertained, and the chronicles of that time had long been familiar to me...\u003cbr\u003eI have sought in this work, less to portray mere manners, which modern researches have rendered familiar to ordinary students in our history, than to bring forward the great characters, so carelessly dismissed in the long and loose record of centuries; to show more clearly the motives and policy of the agents in an event the most memorable in Europe; and to convey a definite, if general, notion of the human beings, whose brains schemed, and whose hearts beat, in that realm of shadows which lies behind the Norman Conquest...\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThis edition features a linked Table of Contents and Footnotes\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003eCONTENTS (abridged list)\u003cbr\u003eDEDICATORY EPISTLE\u003cbr\u003ePREFACE TO THE THIRD EDITION.\u003cbr\u003eBOOK I.\u003cbr\u003eBOOK II.\u003cbr\u003eBOOK III.\u003cbr\u003e...\u003cbr\u003eBOOK X.\u003cbr\u003eBOOK XI.\u003cbr\u003eBOOK XII.\u003cbr\u003eNOTES\u003cbr\u003eFOOTNOTES \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAbout the Author\u003cbr\u003e\"Edward George Earle Lytton Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton PC (1803 – 1873), was an English novelist, poet, playwright, and politician. He was immensely popular with the reading public and wrote a stream of bestselling novels which earned him a considerable fortune. He coined the phrases \"the great unwashed\",[1] \"pursuit of the almighty dollar\", \"the pen is mightier than the sword\", as well as the infamous opening line \"It was a dark and stormy night\".\"--Wikipedia\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"VolumesOfValue","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47081890316528,"sku":"2940016795973","price":3.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/2940016795973_p0.jpg?v=1763641624","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/2940016795973","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}