{"product_id":"the-song-of-the-skylark-paperback","title":"The Song of the Skylark - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eAntoine-Louis Duclaux de l'Estoille\u003c\/b\u003e (Author), \u003cb\u003eBrian Stableford\u003c\/b\u003e (Adapted by)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe Song of the Skylark (1880) is quite uncategorizable, defying classification as a novel, yet its complexity stretching the notion of a book-length \"poem in prose\". It is unique in the annals of French literature, although it has certain affinities with Edgar Quinet's Merlin the Enchanter (1860), which similarly attempts to fuse a transfiguration of the author's own life-story with a fakeloristic pseudohistory of France. centered on the historical fantasy Vercing torix in which the author attempts to reconfigure episodes reported in Julius Caesar's Commentarii de Bellio Gallico into a pseudohistory and imaginary prehistory of Gaul, one that inxcludes an idiosyncratic theory of serial reincarnation.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eHowever puzzling L'Estoille's work might be in its strangeness and unorthodoxy, however, it is certainly not lacking in sanity, and its pathos is highly effective. It is a pity that it was so neglected at its time of publication, and it is fully deserving of the modern reappraisal that its reappearance in the twenty-first century permits.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 324\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.73 x 8 x 5 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e November 01, 2020\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51788631441696,"sku":"9781649320179","price":35.93,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0974\/9764\/5344\/files\/a445bff47edd9b473b3a255991908f92.webp?v=1780656497","url":"https:\/\/ebocreations.com\/products\/the-song-of-the-skylark-paperback","provider":"The E-Book Oasis LLC","version":"1.0","type":"link"}