{"product_id":"2940149461868","title":"Sketches In Lavender Blue And Green","description":"Sketches In Lavender Blue And Green\u003cbr\u003eby Jerome K. Jerome\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe advantage of literature over life is that its characters are clearly defined, and act consistently.  Nature, always inartistic, takes pleasure in creating the impossible.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eReginald Blake was as typical a specimen of the well-bred cad as one could hope to find between Piccadilly Circus and Hyde Park Corner.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eVicious without passion, and possessing brain without mind, existence presented to him no difficulties, while his pleasures brought him no pains.  His morality was bounded by the doctor on the one side, and the magistrate on the other.  Careful never to outrage the decrees of either, he was at forty-five still healthy, though stout; and had achieved the not too easy task of amassing a fortune while avoiding all risk of Holloway.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eHe and his wife, Edith (née Eppington), were as ill-matched a couple as could be conceived by any dramatist seeking material for a problem play.  As they stood before the altar on their wedding morn, they might have been taken as symbolising satyr and saint.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eMore than twenty years his junior, beautiful with the beauty of a Raphael’s Madonna, his every touch of her seemed a sacrilege.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eYet once in his life Mr. Blake played the part of a great gentleman; Mrs. Blake, on the same occasion, contenting herself with a singularly mean rôle—mean even for a woman in love.","brand":"Apps Publisher","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47170701426928,"sku":"2940149461868","price":0.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/2940149461868_p0.jpg?v=1763717552","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/2940149461868","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}