{"product_id":"2940150431492","title":"Rich Man, Poor Man: A Fiction And Literature Classic By Maximilian Foster! AAA+++","description":"Excerpt:\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePromptly at six every week-day evening in the year Mr. Mapleson came down the stairs of the L road station on the corner and trudged up the side street toward his home. He lived at Mrs. Tilney's, the last house but one in the block; but though for more than sixteen years Mr. Mapleson had boarded there, none of the landlady's other patrons--or the landlady either, for that matter--knew much about their fellow-guest. Frankly he was a good deal of a puzzle. The others thought him queer in his ways besides. They were right perhaps.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eHe was a little man, round-shouldered, elderly and spare, with an air of alert, bustling energy quite birdlike in its abruptness. Uppish you might have judged him, and self-important too; yet in his tired eyes as well as in the droop of his small sensitive mouth there was something that belied the vanity of a pompous, confident man. Nor was his briskness so very convincing, once you had closely scanned him, for beneath it all was a secret, furtive nervousness that bordered at times on the panicky. He was, in short, shy--shy to a last degree; a self-conscious, timorous man that on every occasion shrank mistrustfully from the busy world about him. A castaway marooned on a desert island could scarcely have been more solitary, only in Mr. Mapleson's case, of course, the solitude was New York.\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"BDP","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47149318177008,"sku":"2940150431492","price":1.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/2940150431492_p0.jpg?v=1763745140","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/2940150431492","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}