{"product_id":"tomorrows-eve","title":"Tomorrows Eve","description":"\u003cp class='\"jacket_copy\"'\u003eTake one inventive genius indebted to the friend who saved his life; add an English aristocrat hopelessly consumed with a selfish and spiritually bankrupt woman; stir together with a Faustian pact to create the perfect woman--and voilà! \u003cem\u003eTomorrow''s Eve\u003c\/em\u003e is served. \u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cp\u003eRobert Martin Adams''s graceful translation is the first to bring to English readers this captivating fable of a Thomas Edison-like inventor and his creation, the radiant and tragic android Hadaly. \u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cp\u003eAdams''s introduction sketches the uncompromising idealism of the proud but penurious aristocrat Jean Marie Mathias Philippe Auguste, Count Villiers de l''Isle-Adam, a friend and admired colleague of Charles Baudelaire, Stèphane Mallarmé, and Richard Wagner. \u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cp\u003eVilliers dazzles us with a gallery of electronic wonders while unsettling us with the implications of his (and our) increasingly mechanized and mechanical society. A witty and acerbic tale in which human nature, spiritual values, and scientific possibilities collide, \u003cem\u003eTomorrow''s Eve\u003c\/em\u003e retains an enduring freshness and edge.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"MediaPlace","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":57319351484798,"sku":"NW9780252069550","price":15.72,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1379\/1261\/files\/9780252069550.jpg?v=1778727548","url":"https:\/\/mediaplace.com\/products\/tomorrows-eve","provider":"MediaPlace","version":"1.0","type":"link"}