{"product_id":"9780141914138","title":"9780141914138","description":"Alphonse, a young Walloon officer, is travelling to join his regiment in Madrid in 1739. But he soon finds himself mysteriously detained at a highway inn in the strange and varied company of thieves, brigands, cabbalists, noblemen, coquettes and gypsies, whose stories he records over sixty-six days. The resulting manuscript is discovered some forty years later in a sealed casket, from which tales of characters transformed through disguise, magic and illusion, of honour and cowardice, of hauntings and seductions, leap forth to create a vibrant polyphony of human voices. Jan Potocki (1761-1812) used a range of literary styles - gothic, picaresque, adventure, pastoral, erotica - in his novel of stories-within-stories, which, like the Decameron and Tales from the Thousand and One Nights, provides entertainment on an epic scale.","brand":"Penguin Books, Limited","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47119807054064,"sku":"9780141914138","price":18.32,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9780141914138_p0.jpg?v=1763655692","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9780141914138","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}