{"product_id":"9780976140719","title":"The Beach of Falesa","description":"By: Robert Louis Stevenson   | Series: The Art of the Novella \u003chr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\"White men die very suddenly in Falesá.\"\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eOriginally censored by its British publisher, \u003ci\u003eThe Beach at Falesá\u003c\/i\u003e is a scathing critique  of colonialism and economic imperialism that bravely takes on many of the 19th Century’ s strongest taboos: miscegenation, imperialism, and economic exploitation. It does  so with a story that features a surprising and beguiling romance between an adventurous  British trader and a young island girl, against a background of increasing—and mysterious—hostility.  Are the native islanders plotting against the couple, or is it the other white traders?  The result is a denouement that is astonishing in its violence. Told in the unadorned  voice of the trader, it is a story that deftly combines the form of the exotic adventure  yarn with the moral and psychological questing of great fiction.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eThe Art of The Novella Series\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e \u003c\/b\u003eToo short to be a novel, too long to be a short story, the novella is generally unrecognized by academics and publishers. Nonetheless, it is a form beloved and practiced by literature's greatest writers. In the Art Of The Novella series, Melville House celebrates this renegade art form and its practitioners with titles that are, in many instances, presented in book form for the first time.","brand":"Melville House","offers":[{"title":"US - Paperback \/ softback","offer_id":46375836745955,"sku":"DTRPRUS-9780976140719","price":64.0,"currency_code":"HKD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1778\/4925\/files\/9780976140719.jpg?v=1747562597","url":"https:\/\/buybookbook.com\/products\/9780976140719","provider":"買書書 BuyBookBook","version":"1.0","type":"link"}