{"product_id":"jane-austens-pride-and-prejudice-in-61-haiku-1037-syllables-9780997842838","title":"Jane Austen's Pride and Prejudice in 61 Haiku (1,037 Syllables!)","description":"\u003cp\u003eThe Power of the Perfect Pick-Up Line: Jane Austen Makes Her Move\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eEmily Dickinson once famously remarked that if she felt as though the top of her head were taken off, she knew she was reading poetry. And who among us did not read \"It is a truth universally acknowledged, ...\" and feel our heads explode?\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003ePride and Prejudice's\u003c\/em\u003e opening sentence is also the perfect pick-up line. The narrator zeroes in on her reader and introduces herself with what has become one of English literature's most quoted opening sentences.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAusten continues to flirt with her reader in the first sentences of each of the book's 61 chapters. So, how better to acknowledge the power of her collective one-line poetry than by translating \u003cem\u003ePride and Prejudice's\u003c\/em\u003e opening-sentence poems into contemporary twists on the classic Japanese 17-syllable haiku?\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAnd here you have it: \u003cem\u003eJane Austen's Pride and Prejudice in 61 Haiku (1,037 Syllables ).\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIt is my hope that readers will find themselves smiling knowingly from time to time as they travel in this redesigned Japanese vehicle across Austen's familiar English landscape -- and that they will forgive my star-struck attempt at this love-letter-poem to the extraordinary woman who still speaks to us in ways that can blast off the top of our heads.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e James W. Gaynor\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Nemeton Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 10\/01\/2017\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 208\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.37lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 6.00h x 4.00w x 0.57d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780997842838\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eThis title is not returnable\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Nemeton Press","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":40558779203699,"sku":"9.78E+12","price":25.95,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0555\/9255\/0515\/products\/img_8b6f5f4e-bb28-462a-aadd-e4f8c0a2aada.jpg?v=1667658092","url":"https:\/\/bookstorenmore.com\/en-de\/products\/jane-austens-pride-and-prejudice-in-61-haiku-1037-syllables-9780997842838","provider":"Bookstore N More","version":"1.0","type":"link"}