{"product_id":"the-invention-of-love-9780802160782","title":"The Invention of Love","description":"\u003cb\u003e\"Vintage Stoppard in its intelligence and wit.\" --\u003ci\u003eVariety\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003eIt is 1936, and A. E. Housman is being ferried across the river Styx, glad to be dead at last--yet his memories are dramatically alive. Confronting his younger self from the vantage of death, Housman thinks back to the man he loved, who could not return his feelings, and considers the Oxford of his youth, suffused with the flamboyant influence of the Wildean Aesthetic movement and the restrictions of High Victorian morality. Winner of the \u003ci\u003eEvening Standard\u003c\/i\u003e's Best Play Award, \u003ci\u003eThe Invention of Love\u003c\/i\u003e inhabits Housman's imagination as if a dream, illuminating both the pain of hopeless love and the passion displaced into poetry. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Grove Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 12\/05\/2023\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780802160782\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 128","brand":"Tom Stoppard","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":43166062641333,"sku":"9780802160782","price":14.45,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0473\/0804\/6492\/files\/img_effa522d-504a-41da-b875-7b08771a7bcd.jpg?v=1696919524","url":"https:\/\/pastforward.org\/products\/the-invention-of-love-9780802160782","provider":"Past Forward","version":"1.0","type":"link"}