{"product_id":"9781448215157","title":"The Nature of Love","description":"The \u003ci\u003eNature of Love\u003c\/i\u003e (Michael Joseph, 1953) was Bates's first published collection of novellas.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIt contains three stories, different in weight but similar in texture, drawing from rural landscapes and the sensitive, poignant studies of the people that bring them to life. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eDulcima\u003c\/i\u003e, dedicated to W. Somerset Maugham, is a tale of a simple girl in rural England whose manipulation of both an old widower and a young forest worker has tragic results. In 1971, EMI Productions released a film adaptation starring Carol White and John Mills.\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003e \u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Grass God\u003c\/i\u003e is a literary portrait of Fitzgerald, a landowner who is unfeeling in the treatment of his tenants and his wife, who, whilst bumbling through a summer affair with a young  beauty, gets a taste of his own medicine.    \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eFurther afield, \u003ci\u003eThe Delicate Nature\u003c\/i\u003e follows a young man to the Malaysian jungle to assist a plantation owner, but enters into an affair with his wife.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003eFor the first time, this collection includes the bonus story 'Old Lady' which continues the retrospective theme and the dalliances of young romance.","brand":"Bloomsbury USA","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47155291947248,"sku":"9781448215157","price":5.49,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9781448215157_p0.jpg?v=1763837093","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781448215157","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}