{"product_id":"9781551116280","title":"The History of Sandford and Merton (1783-9)","description":"\u003cp\u003eAmong the earliest novels written about children, for children, \u003cb\u003eThe History of Sandford and Merton\u003c\/b\u003e was enormously popular for a century and a half after its first publication in 1783–9. The novel is Enlightenment for beginners, offering a course of education in class, race, and gender to its six year-old protagonists, the robust farm-boy Harry Sandford and Tommy Merton, the spoiled boy from the big house. \u003cb\u003eSandford and Merton\u003c\/b\u003e offers entertaining and practical lessons in manners, masculinity, and class politics. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis Broadview Edition includes the original illustrations, along with contemporary reviews and other material on childhood by John Locke, Thomas Day, Jean-Jacques Rousseau, and others. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Broadview Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49787048362224,"sku":"9781551116280","price":27.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781551116280","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}