{"product_id":"2940170773787","title":"The Bostonians","description":"From Boston's social underworld emerges Verena Tarrant, a girl with extraordinary oratorical gifts, which she deploys in tawdry meeting-houses on behalf of \"the sisterhood of women.\" She acquires two admirers of a very different stamp: Olive Chancellor, devotee of radical causes and marked out for tragedy; and Basil Ransom, a veteran of the Civil War who holds rigid views concerning society and women's place therein. Is the lovely, lighthearted Verena made for public movements or private passions? A struggle to possess her, body and soul, develops between Olive and Basil.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe exploitation of Verena's unregenerate innocence reflects a society whose moral and cultural values are failing to survive the new dawn of liberalism and democracy. When it was first published in 1886, \u003ci\u003eThe Bostonians\u003c\/i\u003e was not welcomed by Henry James's fellow countrymen, who failed to appreciate its delicacy and wit. But over a century later, this book is widely regarded as James's finest American fiction and perhaps his comic masterpiece.","brand":"Tantor Audio","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47117579190512,"sku":"2940170773787","price":23.49,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/2940170773787_p0.jpg?v=1763717142","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/2940170773787","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}