{"product_id":"a-gentle-creature","title":"A Gentle Creature","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan style=\"color: #0f1111; font-family: \" amazon ember arial sans-serif font-size: background-color:\u003eAn edition from the 'Golden Tattoo' series. Printed in 12pt type with wide line spacing for maximum readability. Unabridged. Modern translation.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr style=\"box-sizing: border-box; color: #0f1111; font-family: \" amazon ember arial sans-serif font-size: background-color:\u003e\u003cbr style=\"box-sizing: border-box; color: #0f1111; font-family: \" amazon ember arial sans-serif font-size: background-color:\u003e\u003cspan style=\"color: #0f1111; font-family: \" amazon ember arial sans-serif font-size: background-color:\u003eThe plot is structured as the confession of a pawnbroker standing over the coffin of his young wife, who has committed suicide. He attempts to understand the reasons behind the tragedy by recalling the history of their marriage: how he, a forty-year-old man with wounded pride, took a sixteen-year-old dowerless girl as his wife, deciding to ‘conquer’ her with his silence and austerity.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr style=\"box-sizing: border-box; color: #0f1111; font-family: \" amazon ember arial sans-serif font-size: background-color:\u003e\u003cbr style=\"box-sizing: border-box; color: #0f1111; font-family: \" amazon ember arial sans-serif font-size: background-color:\u003e\u003cspan style=\"color: #0f1111; font-family: \" amazon ember arial sans-serif font-size: background-color:\u003eHis desire to dominate and mold his wife into an ideal, submissive creature leads to a silent psychological confrontation and mutual alienation. By the time the protagonist finally realizes his love and readiness to change, it is too late — A Gentle Creature, unable to endure the spiritual oppression and seeing no way out, throws herself from a window holding an icon.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Publishing House No. 10","offers":[{"title":"Perfect Bound","offer_id":66875950924080,"sku":"9781837460632","price":10.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/www.thegreatbritishbookshop.co.uk\/products\/a-gentle-creature","provider":"The Great British Bookshop","version":"1.0","type":"link"}