{"product_id":"2940170518241","title":"The Return of Martin Guerre","description":"\u003cp\u003eThe Inventive Peasant Arnaud du Tilh had almost persuaded the learned judges at the Parlement of Toulouse, when on a summer's day in 1560 a man swaggered into the court on a wooden leg, denounced Arnaud, and reestablished his claim to the identity, property, and wife of Martin Guerre. The astonishing case captured the imagination of the Continent.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eNatalie Zemon Davis reconstructs the lives of ordinary people, in a sparkling way that reveals the hidden attachments and sensibilities of nonliterate sixteenth-century villagers. We learn what happens when common people get involved in the workings of the criminal courts in the \u003ci\u003eancien régime\u003c\/i\u003e, and how judges struggle to decide who a man was in the days before fingerprints and photographs. We sense the secret affinity between the eloquent men of law and the honey-tongued village impostor, a rare identification across class lines.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eDeftly written to please both the general public and specialists, \u003ci\u003eThe Return of Martin Guerre\u003c\/i\u003e will interest those who want to know more about ordinary families and especially women of the past, and about the creation of literary legends. It is a remarkable psychological narrative about where self-fashioning stops and lying begins.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Tantor Audio","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47156633764080,"sku":"2940170518241","price":13.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/2940170518241_p0.jpg?v=1763711361","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/2940170518241","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}