{"product_id":"a-factory-of-cunning-9780156030670","title":"A Factory of Cunning","description":"Set in late eighteenth-century England, Philippa Stockley's American debut gives us a wickedly delightful but deadly serious battle of the wills and the sexes. It begins with the arrival in London of the mysterious Mrs. Fox--on the run from a scandalous French past--who takes a new identity, determined to reinvent herself. She must pit her formidable skills for revenge against Earl Much, a British aristocrat with no less notorious a past and easily her match in sinfulness and intrigue. Between these two swirls a story featuring venal lords, wronged maidens, and reprobate clergymen, transporting readers from bawdy houses to country estates--places where the pleasures of the flesh are both high comedy and serious business. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cem\u003eA Factory of Cunning\u003c\/em\u003e takes readers to the world immortal­ized in \u003cem\u003eDangerous Liaisons.\u003c\/em\u003e And, like Michel Faber's \u003cem\u003eThe Crimson Petal and the White, \u003c\/em\u003e the vividly rendered setting and characters give the thrill of a fresh discovery.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Houghton Mifflin\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 09\/01\/2006\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780156030670\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 368\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.78lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.00h x 5.28w x 0.86d","brand":"Philippa Stockley","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45331864944821,"sku":"9780156030670","price":15.29,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0473\/0804\/6492\/files\/img_3c37270c-435a-4ef4-a0ee-f3069d0fce92.jpg?v=1745938317","url":"https:\/\/pastforward.org\/products\/a-factory-of-cunning-9780156030670","provider":"Past Forward","version":"1.0","type":"link"}