{"product_id":"9781531232269","title":"Vignettes of Manhattan; Outlines in Local Color","description":"James   Brander Matthews (February 21, 1852 – March 31, 1929) was an American writer   and educator. He was the first full-time professor of dramatic literature at   an American university and played a significant role in establishing theater   as a subject worthy of formal study in the academic world. His interests   ranged from Shakespeare, Molière, and Ibsen to French boulevard comedies,   folk theater, and the new realism of his own day. Brander Matthews was a   prolific, varied, and uneven writer, author of over thirty books. His own   novels and plays are undistinguished and long-forgotten (the claim to fame of   one of his plays is its footnote status in Theodore Dreiser’s novel Sister   Carrie: it is the melodrama, A Gold Mine, Carrie attends which leads her to   consider a career on the stage). \u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Pithy Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47147031429360,"sku":"9781531232269","price":0.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9781531232269_p0.jpg?v=1763740739","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781531232269","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}