{"product_id":"the-midhurst-lashes-9798985021554","title":"The Midhurst Lashes","description":"\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cem\u003eThe Midhurst Lashes\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e conflates and adapts as a screenplay the only two novels written by poet Algernon Charles Swinburne: the fragmentary \u003cem\u003eLesbia Brandon \u003c\/em\u003eand what may be the best unreadable novel in the English language, \u003cem\u003e Love's Cross-Currents\u003c\/em\u003e.\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003eIn books saturated with feeling (however perversely expressed), partly autobiographical, partly derived from De Sade and from Laclos' \u003cem\u003eLes Liaisons Dangereuses, \u003c\/em\u003e supremely subtle (and yet operatic), Swinburne creates one of Victorian literature's great characters, Helena, Lady Midhurst. Midhurst ruthlessly whips her daughter, niece, nephews and grandchildren into and out of affairs and marriages, crowning her manipulations by trying to secure-at any cost to others-the family title for her own great-grandson. Among the sufferers along the way is her grandson Redgie, who falls in love with a cousin only to find Midhurst intent on sending her away.\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cem\u003eThe Midhurst Lashes\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e tells a devastating story of control, manipulation, pain, powerlessness, helpless surrender, ecstasy and love in a \u003cem\u003ehaut monde\u003c\/em\u003e of play, rivalry and score-settling.\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIncludes Meyers's Afterword.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Steven Key Meyers\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Steven Key Meyers\/The Smash-And-Grab Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 10\/17\/2023\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 148\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.50lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.34d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9798985021554","brand":"Steven Key Meyers\/The Smash-And-Grab Press","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":43981447594099,"sku":"9.79899E+12","price":11.95,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0555\/9255\/0515\/files\/img_dcba3985-ebbf-4bc1-abf8-c8b6cfade3ac.jpg?v=1760621227","url":"https:\/\/bookstorenmore.com\/en-de\/products\/the-midhurst-lashes-9798985021554","provider":"Bookstore N More","version":"1.0","type":"link"}