{"product_id":"books-the-manuscript-found-in-saragossa-by-jan-potocki","title":"The Manuscript Found in Saragossa","description":"Alphonse, 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. Jan Potocki (1761-1812) used a range of literary styles - gothic, picaresque, adventure, pastoral, erotica - in his novel of stories-within-stories, which, like the Decameron and Tales from the Thousand and One Nights, provides entertainment on an epic scale.","brand":"World of Books ","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":53480703000849,"sku":null,"price":0.0,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/9780140445800.jpg?v=1777551213","url":"https:\/\/www.worldofbooks.com\/en-ie\/products\/books-the-manuscript-found-in-saragossa-by-jan-potocki","provider":"World of Books ","version":"1.0","type":"link"}