{"product_id":"9781934555910","title":"The Heroine, Or, Adventures Of A Fair Romance Reader","description":"\u003cp\u003e\"I finished \u003ci\u003eThe Heroine\u003c\/i\u003e last night and was very much amused by it. It diverted me exceedingly. I have torn through the third volume; I do not think it falls off. It is a delightful burlesque...\" - Jane Austen\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"\u003ci\u003eEverybody\u003c\/i\u003e has read [\u003ci\u003eThe Heroine\u003c\/i\u003e]. There is no one so superlatively unhappy as not to have done this thing. But if such there be - if by any possibility such person should exist, we have only a few words to say to him. Go, silly man, and purchase forthwith '\u003ci\u003eThe Heroine: or Adventures of Cherubina\u003c\/i\u003e.' There are few books written with more tact, spirit, näiveté, or grace, [...] and none more fairly entitled to rank among the classics of English literature than the Heroine of Eaton Stannard Barrett.\" - Edgar Allan Poe, in \u003ci\u003eThe Southern Literary Messenger\u003c\/i\u003e (1835)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eYoung Cherry Wilkinson, the daughter of a farmer, has read one too many Gothic novels. And when she discovers a mysterious fragment of parchment and an antiquated portrait in her father's desk, she becomes convinced that she is a heroine and an heiress, and that the farmer is not her father, but instead an assassin with designs upon her life.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eRenaming herself Cherubina, she deserts her home and sets off on a mad romp across England, determined to recover her lost domains and unravel her true parentage. But after a series of madcap and hilarious adventures, she comes to find that modern-day English law and society do not always permit a young lady to behave like a character out of a romantic tale. And when a handsome but dissolute young actor learns of Cherry's father's wealth and her mania for Gothic novels and styles himself Lord Montmorenci in an attempt to deceive her into a marriage, Cherubina will need all of her heroine's wit to defeat the nefarious plot!\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eA brilliant comic novel that went through numerous editions in its time and earned widespread critical acclaim, \u003ci\u003eThe Heroine\u003c\/i\u003e (1813) has recently been badly neglected and has been out of print for almost a century. This edition features a substantial new introduction by internationally known Gothic scholars Avril Horner and Sue Zlosnik, the unabridged text of the first edition, and detailed endnotes.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Valancourt Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47039626248432,"sku":"9781934555910","price":19.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9781934555910_p0.jpg?v=1763642555","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781934555910","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}