{"product_id":"the-sea-lady","title":"The Sea Lady","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eA mermaid comes ashore at a seaside resort, and quietly calls one man toward a deeper, stranger dream.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cdiv style=\"margin:1.5em 0 .2em;\"\u003e\n\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/shop.ingramspark.com\/b\/084?params=EfodVgB0BF6eESzVaWkvyWRdln7uvSiMF8DyCSM3nI5\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" style=\"display:inline-block;text-decoration:none;font-weight:700;font-size:14px;letter-spacing:.08em;text-transform:uppercase;padding:15px 30px;margin:0 12px 12px 0;border:2px solid #F2C230;background:#F2C230;color:#111111;\"\u003eOrder Paperback\u003c\/a\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/shop.ingramspark.com\/b\/084?params=ZoILKuLKa76K9Wzr4RkoqG9hMLSpVNDR1vzqhqGCBDI\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" style=\"display:inline-block;text-decoration:none;font-weight:700;font-size:14px;letter-spacing:.08em;text-transform:uppercase;padding:15px 30px;margin:0 12px 12px 0;border:2px solid #F2C230;background:#F2C230;color:#111111;\"\u003eOrder Hardcover\u003c\/a\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"font-size:13px;line-height:1.6;color:#6E6E6E;margin:.2em 0 1.8em;\"\u003eOrders are placed and shipped by our printer. This page is a catalogue listing.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch3\u003eAbout this edition\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eOn a bright August morning, in full sight of the Sandgate villas, a beautiful woman is drawn from the sea, and proves to have a tail. She gives her name as Miss Doris Thalassia Waters, settles among the respectable Buntings, and makes it known she has come ashore for one thing only: Harry Chatteris, a promising young man promised to another.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eInto the trim, sunlit respectability of an Edwardian watering-place swims the Sea Lady, beautiful, otherworldly and entirely unconcerned with the rules of polite society. As she draws Harry away from his engagement, his career and the whole bright surface of his life, the question becomes which world is the dream and which the waking.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eFirst published in 1902, \u003cem\u003eThe Sea Lady\u003c\/em\u003e is Wells’s wittiest and most wistful fantasy, written between the scientific romances of his youth and the social novels that followed. Beneath its comedy of manners runs one unhurried question, whether a safe, creditable life is worth more than the unattainable thing that calls across the water, which Wells lets hang, glittering and unanswered, as a tissue of moonshine. With the original illustrations by Lewis Baumer, bound behind an original painting.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch3\u003eDetails\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eH. G. Wells (1866–1946), illustrated by Lewis Baumer\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eThe complete 1902 novel with the first illustrated edition’s plates\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eSolocosmo Press\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eThe Lightbound Library\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003ePaperback and hardcover, 6 × 9, 152 pages\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e","brand":"Solocosmo Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50186614407416,"sku":null,"price":0.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0845\/2433\/5352\/files\/the-sea-lady.jpg?v=1787184878","url":"https:\/\/solocosmo.org\/products\/the-sea-lady","provider":"solocosmo","version":"1.0","type":"link"}