{"product_id":"9781412163415","title":"The Good Soldier","description":"At the fashionable German spa town Bad Nauheim, two wealthy, fin de siecle couples -- one British, the other American -- meet for their yearly assignation. As their story moves back and forth in time between 1902 and 1914, the fragile surface propriety of the pre -- World War I society in which these four characters live is ruptured -- revealing deceit, hatred, infidelity, and betrayal. \"The Good Soldier\" is Edward Ashburnham, who, as an adherent to the moral code of the English upper class, is nonetheless consumed by a passion for women younger than his wife -- a stoic but fallible figure in what his American friend, John Dowell, calls \"the saddest story I ever heard.\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eFrom the Trade Paperback edition.\u003c\/i\u003e","brand":"eBooksLib","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47126432186608,"sku":"9781412163415","price":2.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9781412163415_p0.jpg?v=1763724857","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781412163415","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}