{"product_id":"testimonies-paperback","title":"Testimonies - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003ePatrick O'Brien\u003c\/b\u003e (Author), \u003cb\u003ePatrick O'Brian\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eDelmore Schwartz, the most influential critic in postwar America, wrote of Patrick O'Brian's first novel \u003cem\u003eTestimonies\u003c\/em\u003e: \"A triumph...drawn forward by lyric eloquence and the story's fascination, [the reader] discovers in the end that he has encountered in a new way the sphinx and the riddle of existence itself.\" Schwartz' imagination was fired by this sinister tale of love and death set in Wales, a timeless story with echoes of Thomas Hardy and Mary Webb.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Joseph Pugh, sick of Oxford and of teaching, decides to take some time off to live in a wild and beautiful Welsh farm valley. There he falls physically ill and is nursed back to health by Bronwen Vaughn, the wife of a neighboring farmer. Slowly, unwillingly, Bronwen and Pugh fall in love;' and while that word is never spoken between them, their story is as passionate and as tragic as that of Vronsky and Anna Karenina.\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 224\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.59 x 8.33 x 5.4 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e July 01, 1995\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51775885443360,"sku":"9780393313161","price":25.33,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0974\/9764\/5344\/files\/a0008c57397fc4cad8fedc3108b48fbb.webp?v=1780468447","url":"https:\/\/ebocreations.com\/products\/testimonies-paperback","provider":"The E-Book Oasis LLC","version":"1.0","type":"link"}