{"product_id":"the-ghost-of-monsieur-scarron-paperback","title":"The Ghost of Monsieur Scarron - Paperback","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eJanet Lewis\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis historical novel is the third and final book in American poet and fiction writer Janet Lewis's \u003ci\u003eCases of Circumstantial Evidence\u003c\/i\u003e series, based on legal case studies compiled in the nineteenth century. In \u003ci\u003eThe Ghost of Monsieur Scarron\u003c\/i\u003e, Lewis returns to her beloved France, the setting of \u003ci\u003eThe Wife of Martin Guerre\u003c\/i\u003e, her best-known novel and the first in the series. As Swallow Press executive editor Kevin Haworth relates in a new introduction, Monsieur Scarron shifts the reader into the center of Paris in 1694, during the turbulent reign of the Sun King, Louis XIV. The junction of this time and place gives Monsieur Scarron an intriguing political element not apparent in either \u003ci\u003eThe Wife of Martin Guerre\u003c\/i\u003e or \u003ci\u003eThe Trial of Sören Qvist\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Ghost of Monsieur Scarron\u003c\/i\u003e begins in a small bookbinder's shop on a modest Paris street, but inexorably expands to encompass a tumultuous affair, growing social unrest, and the conflicts between a legal system based on oppressive order and a society about to undergo harsh changes. With its domestic drama set against a larger political and historical backdrop, Monsieur Scarron is considered by some critics and readers to be the most intricately layered and fully realized book of Lewis's long career. Originally published in 1959, Monsieur Scarron has remained in print almost continuously ever since.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eJanet Lewis\u003c\/b\u003e was a novelist, poet, and short-story writer whose literary career spanned almost the entire twentieth century. The \u003ci\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/i\u003e has praised her novels as \"some of the 20th century's most vividly imagined and finely wrought literature.\" Born and educated in Chicago, she lived in California for most of her adult life and taught at both Stanford University and the University of California at Berkeley. Her works include \u003ci\u003eThe Wife of Martin Guerre\u003c\/i\u003e (1941), \u003ci\u003eThe Trial of Sören Qvist\u003c\/i\u003e (1947), \u003ci\u003eThe Ghost of Monsieur Scarron\u003c\/i\u003e (1959), \u003ci\u003eGood-Bye, Son and Other Stories\u003c\/i\u003e (1946), and \u003ci\u003ePoems Old and New\u003c\/i\u003e (1982).\u003c\/p\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 376\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.84 x 8.01 x 5.29 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e July 15, 2013\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":54726774882595,"sku":"9780804011457","price":28.83,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0974\/4836\/2275\/files\/bVhIYSszY2l6NHJWeHhqQnhoaC9UUT09.webp?v=1770779938","url":"https:\/\/chaptersafterdarkbookstore.com\/products\/the-ghost-of-monsieur-scarron-paperback","provider":"Chapters After Dark Bookstore","version":"1.0","type":"link"}