{"product_id":"2940150735910","title":"Tales Of Unrest","description":"Excerpt-But the tale remained. It was first fixed in print in the \"Cornhill Magazine\", being my first appearance in a serial of any kind; and I have lived long enough to see it guyed most agreeably by Mr. Max Beerbohm in a volume of parodies entitled \"A Christmas Garland,\" where I found myself in very good company. I was immensely gratified. I began to believe in my public existence. I have much to thank \"The Lagoon\" for.\u003cbr\u003eMy next effort in short-story writing was a departure--I mean a departure from the Malay Archipelago. Without premeditation, without sorrow, without rejoicing, and almost without noticing it, I stepped into the very different atmosphere of \"An Outpost of Progress.\" I found there a different moral attitude. I seemed able to capture new reactions, new suggestions, and even new rhythms for my paragraphs. For a moment I fancied myself a new man--a most exciting illusion. It clung to me for some time, monstrous, half conviction and half hope as to its body, with an iridescent tail of dreams and with a changeable head like a plastic mask. It was only later that I perceived that in common with the rest of men nothing could deliver me from my fatal consistency. We cannot escape from ourselves.","brand":"Kartindo Publishing House","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47149459407088,"sku":"2940150735910","price":0.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/2940150735910_p0.jpg?v=1763752204","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/2940150735910","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}