{"product_id":"the-manuscript-found-in-saragossa","title":"The Manuscript Found in Saragossa","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eAlphonse, a young Walloon officer, is travelling to join his regiment in Madrid in 1739. But he soon finds himself mysteriously detained at a highway inn in the strange and varied company of thieves, brigands, cabbalists, noblemen, coquettes and gypsies, whose stories he records over sixty-six days. The resulting manuscript is discovered some forty years later in a sealed casket, from which tales of characters transformed through disguise, magic and illusion, of honour and cowardice, of hauntings and seductions, leap forth to create a vibrant polyphony of human voices.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003ePolish author, Jan Potocki (1761-1812) used a range of literary styles - gothic, picaresque, adventure, pastoral, erotica - in his novel of stories-within-stories, which, like \u003cem\u003eThe Decameron\u003c\/em\u003e and \u003cem\u003eTales from the Thousand and One Nights\u003c\/em\u003e, provides entertainment on an epic scale. \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003eFirst published in 1805, this edition contains an introduction by Ian MacLean.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Jan Potocki","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":54510570864979,"sku":"9780140445800","price":14.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1071\/6997\/2563\/files\/9780140445800.jpg?v=1786208128","url":"https:\/\/www.vanitaspress.co.uk\/products\/the-manuscript-found-in-saragossa","provider":"Vanitas Press","version":"1.0","type":"link"}