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The general's wife, the doughty charwoman, spy, and rabble-rouser La Sagouine, had one finger in every pie and one raised to her neighbour, La Sainte.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe Flea Islanders were constantly at odds with the almost as clever but far more civilized upper crust of the mainland village: the mayoress, the schoolteacher, the merchant, the banker. When they invaded and tried to steal a keg of molasses, the outcome of the mock-heroic battle was unclear, except that La Sainte's son, the hapless young Citrouille, and Adeline, the merchant's lovely daughter, had fallen in love.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eWith the insider's accumulation of oral history, gossip, and shrewd hindsight, Antonine Maillet has conjured up a fictional Acadia that her ancestors would relish. Perhaps those who could read it would have even understood it: she wrote Don l'Orignal in a version of 16th-century domestic French that she adapted for modern readers. In this far-fetched, but always entertaining fable, Maillet holds up a mirror to Acadian history and to an all too fallible human nature.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"GB \/ VERY_GOOD \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":49600007078161,"sku":"GOR003546337","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"GB \/ WELL_READ \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":49658495729937,"sku":"GOR002035516","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"US \/ GOOD \/ SBYB","offer_id":50302894637329,"sku":"CIN0333064992G","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"GB \/ NEW \/ INGRAM","offer_id":52474033275153,"sku":"NLS9780333064993","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"GB \/ GOOD \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":53655281664273,"sku":"GOR001016048","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/0333064992.jpg?v=1759227932"},{"product_id":"new-prefaces-to-shakespeare-book-john-wilders-9780631159131","title":"New Prefaces to Shakespeare","description":"It took the BBC and PBS seven years to complete their historic television production of every single one of William Shakespeare's 37 plays. Supervising their literary background was John Wilders, who then wrote prefaces for the edition of the plays, published with the series. These are brought together in this volume, introductions to the plays specifically written for the modern theatregoer and playreader. It should also be of use for anyone wanting a feel for a particular play, an idea of its principal themes, or just an understanding of what lies in store when encountering the well-known - and the considerably less well-known - plays of William Shakespeare. The prefaces are designed to stand on their own, to be read and referred to in their own right. 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