{"product_id":"2940150735743","title":"Lord Jim","description":"Excerpt-The few pages I had laid aside were not without their weight in the choice of subject. But the whole was re-written deliberately. When I sat down to it I knew it would be a long book, though I didn't foresee that it would spread itself over thirteen numbers of Maga.\u003cbr\u003eI have been asked at times whether this was not the book of mine I liked best. I am a great foe to favouritism in public life, in private life, and even in the delicate relationship of an author to his works. As a matter of principle I will have no favourites; but I don't go so far as to feel grieved and annoyed by the preference some people give to my Lord Jim. I won't even say that I 'fail to understand . . .' No! But once I had occasion to be puzzled and surprised.\u003cbr\u003eA friend of mine returning from Italy had talked with a lady there who did not like the book. I regretted that, of course, but what surprised me was the ground of her dislike. 'You know,' she said, 'it is all so morbid.'\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Kartindo Publishing House","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47149470220528,"sku":"2940150735743","price":0.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/2940150735743_p0.jpg?v=1763752142","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/2940150735743","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}