{"product_id":"alfred-de-musset","title":"Alfred de Musset","description":"\u003cp\u003eMarianne, Fantasio, Don't Trifle With Love, The Candlestick, A Diversion, A Door Must be Open or Shut, You Can't Think of Everything \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThe seven plays in this collection share a light-hearted tone, though with occasional and unexpected moments of seriousness. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eIn Marianne, a confirmed cynic intercedes with a married woman on behalf of his best friend. In the eponymous hero of the modern 'fairy tale' Fantasio, by turns imaginative, abrupt and perceptive, Musset provides us with a compelling self-portrait. Don't Trifle with Love shows the dangerous strategems of two childhood sweethearts, supposedly destined for marriage. In The Candlestick, an infatuated clerk is set up as a decoy by his employer's young wife and her lover. The one-act plays A Diversion, A Door Must be Open or Shut and You Can't Think of Everything deal, in witty, epigrammatic style, with various aspects of romance: a wife and her friend test her husband's fidelity, or lack of it; a man wants to propose to his bantering, blasé hostess; and a couple in love, one absent-minded, the other forgetful, tries to concentrate long enough to get married.","brand":"Bloomsbury Publishing PLC","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48833522630861,"sku":"9781840025866","price":22.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0557\/1529\/9533\/files\/imageloader_6eafa767-4e12-4580-8de7-d7fac2f05f35.jpg?v=1790887507","url":"https:\/\/booksatmidnight.com\/products\/alfred-de-musset","provider":"Books At Midnight","version":"1.0","type":"link"}