{"product_id":"9781420918144","title":"The Misanthrope","description":"\u003ci\u003eAffection I can endure,\u003cbr\u003eaffectation I abhor. Empty phrases,\u003cbr\u003emeaningless gestures of faked good-will.\u003cbr\u003eThese affable dispensers of embraces make me ill.\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eDisgusted with French society where powdered fops gossip in code and bejewelled coquettes whisper behind fans, poet Alceste embarks on a one-man crusade against fakery, frippery and forked tongues. But could the woman he adores be the worst culprit of them all? And in this rarefied world will his revolution prove merely revolting?\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eConsidered by many to be Molière's best work, \u003ci\u003eThe Misanthrope\u003c\/i\u003e was first performed in 1666 in Paris by the King's Players. Following the huge successes of \u003ci\u003eTartuffe \u003c\/i\u003eand \u003ci\u003eThe Hypochondriac \u003c\/i\u003emaster wordsmith Roger McGough once again dips his quill into a Molière classic in this mockery of manners and morals set amid seventeenth-century French aristocracy and written in verse.","brand":"Neeland Media LLC","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47153155309808,"sku":"9781420918144","price":0.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9781420918144_p0.jpg?v=1763729680","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781420918144","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}