{"product_id":"loveletters-between-a-nobleman-and-his-sister-penguin-classics-9780140435375","title":"Love-Letters Between a Nobleman and His Sister (Penguin Classics)","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"book-description\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eLove-Letters Between a Nobleman and His Sister (Penguin Classics)\u003c\/strong\u003e by Behn, Aphra. paperback edition. ISBN: 9780140435375.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eWith Love-Letters Between a Nobleman and His Sister, Aphra Behn, a leading Restoration dramatist, produced what is arguably the first long novel in English.\nHer witty, racy roman a clef in three volumes is set in the tumultuous years surrounding the death of Charles II in 1685. A heady mix of eroticism, sex and politics, it concentrates on a sensational aristocratic scandal of the day, the seduction of Henrietta Berkeley by her sisters husband Lord Grey, a notorious libertine, rebel and intimate of King Charless son, the Duke of Monmouth.\nLove-Letters depicts the desire for erotic domination at the heart of aristocratic Restoration culture - possibly of any culture, writes Janet Todd in her Introduction. As the novel unfolds, the innocence of Behns young protagonist Silvia, evident in the sincerity and passion of her love-letters, is undermined; seduction is followed by disillusionment, and Silvia transforms herself into a female rake, bent on conquest rather than love. Portraying a world in which individual appetite rules and all authority is in doubt, Love-Letters brilliantly dramatizes the perverse and anarchic nature of desire.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Penguin","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":44968289435701,"sku":"ByrdShop_0140435379","price":226.4,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0627\/8139\/0901\/files\/9780140435375_a799e4f2-97da-4d8c-9a5b-3f8fd62012f4.jpg?v=1778854559","url":"https:\/\/atxbooks.com\/products\/loveletters-between-a-nobleman-and-his-sister-penguin-classics-9780140435375","provider":"ATX Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}