{"product_id":"the-golden-pot-a-fairytale-for-our-time","title":"The Golden Pot A Fairytale for Our Time","description":"A modernization of an old and celebrated art fairy tale (Kunstmärchen) by the German Gothic storyteller, E.T.A. Hoffmann.\nAs its title suggests, THE GOLDEN POT: A FAIRY TALE FOR OUR TIME is a modernization of an old and celebrated art fairy tale (Kunstm‰rchen) by the German Gothic storyteller, E.T.A. Hoffmann. It is a comic novel for children of all ages and tells the story of graduate student Anselm MacGregor, as he braves the perils of a spiritual journey from ignorance to enlightenment. The tale is set in the concrete jungle of the New Jersey\/New York metropolitan area of today, a most unlikely, yet fascinating, locale for fairytale doings. Young Anselm, a penurious Ph.D. candidate in English literature at Empyrean U., lives on peanut butter sandwiches and is only too happy to take a parttime job transcribing old manuscripts in arcane languages to the computer for John Lindhurst, a local archivist. This becomes his psychospiritual apprenticeship, an ordeal involving him in many treacherous trials, including imprisonment in a glass bottle and the lures of two beautiful women who compete, at times necromantically, for his love.\nFiction.\u003cbr\u003eASIN: 396258109X\u003cbr\u003eVSKU: BVV.396258109X.VG\u003cbr\u003eCondition: Very Good\u003cbr\u003eAuthor\/Artist:McCort, Dennis\u003cbr\u003eBinding: Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eNote:\u003c\/b\u003e Any images shown are stock photographs and product may differ from what is shown.  \u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eCondition Notes\u003c\/b\u003e: Book has little sign of wear or use  \u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Blue Vase Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":43298189377597,"sku":"BVV.396258109X.VG","price":18.94,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0589\/4225\/9261\/files\/396258109X-0.jpg?v=1782507289","url":"https:\/\/www.bluevasebooks.com\/products\/the-golden-pot-a-fairytale-for-our-time","provider":"Blue Vase Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}