{"product_id":"awake-paperback","title":"Awake - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eHarald Voetmann\u003c\/b\u003e (Author), \u003cb\u003eJohanne Sorgenfri Ottosen\u003c\/b\u003e (Translator)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn a shuttered bedroom in ancient Italy, the sleepless Pliny the Elder lies in bed obsessively dictating new chapters of his \u003cem\u003eNatural History\u003c\/em\u003e to his slave Diocles. Fat, wheezing, imperious, and prone to nosebleeds, Pliny does not believe in spending his evenings in repose: No--to be awake is to be alive. There's no time to waste if he is to classify every element of the natural world in a single work. By day Pliny the Elder carries out his many civic duties and gives the occasional disastrous public reading. But despite his astonishing ambition to catalog everything from precious metals to the moon, as well as a collection of exotic plants sourced from the farthest reaches of the world, Pliny the Elder still takes immense pleasure in the common rose. After he rushes to an erupting Mount Vesuvius and perishes in the ash, his nephew, Pliny the Younger, becomes custodian of his life's work. But where Pliny the Elder saw starlight, Pliny the Younger only sees fireflies.\u003cbr\u003e In masterfully honed prose, Voetmann brings the formidable Pliny the Elder (and his pompous nephew) to life. \u003cem\u003eAwake\u003c\/em\u003e is a comic delight about one of history's great minds and the not-so-great human body it was housed in.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 112\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.4 x 7.9 x 5.2 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e September 21, 2021\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51767951786272,"sku":"9780811230810","price":14.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0974\/9764\/5344\/files\/286dfc5dd2da1c95955371d722a6ad1b.webp?v=1780321366","url":"https:\/\/ebocreations.com\/products\/awake-paperback","provider":"The E-Book Oasis LLC","version":"1.0","type":"link"}