{"product_id":"my-lady-nicotine","title":"Meine Dame Nikotin","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eWhat if giving up your pipe means losing more than a habit?\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn My Lady Nicotine, J. M. Barrie introduces a London bachelor who treats his pipe like a beloved companion. Looking back on his bachelor days, the narrator gathers scenes of talk, tobacco and friendship. Marriot, Pettigrew and Gilray join him, each bringing his own habits and opinions to the smoking table.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThese comic sketches move from a bachelor's devotion to his pipe to the pleasures of shared talk and the pressures of courtship and marriage. Other loyalties threaten the smokers' comfortable circle. Beneath the teasing, Barrie asks what a cherished habit gives us—and what we risk when we let it go.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eInside this book\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eA bachelor and his pipe\u003c\/strong\u003e – Meet a narrator whose faithful companion inspires the tender language usually saved for love.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eAround the smoking table\u003c\/strong\u003e – Enjoy Marriot, Pettigrew and Gilray as their habits and opinions feed the gentle comedy.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eLove challenges old loyalties\u003c\/strong\u003e – Watch courtship and marriage press against the familiar pleasures of the narrator's circle.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eThe comfort of company\u003c\/strong\u003e – Discover how a pipe becomes a reason to sit, listen and share an easy silence.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eThe cost of habit\u003c\/strong\u003e – Look beneath the jokes at the comfort of familiar habits and the difficulty of giving them up.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\u003cp\u003ePerfect for readers who enjoy dry, affectionate humour, Victorian London and short scenes of friendship, or know the struggle of dropping a habit.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eOpen the first page now and pull up a chair among Barrie's smoking friends.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Library of Alexandria Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":59534756315484,"sku":null,"price":0.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1027\/9442\/8764\/files\/14040_en_ebook-front_c23.jpg?v=1792175180","url":"https:\/\/libraryofalexandria.com\/de\/products\/meine-dame-nikotin","provider":"The Library of Alexandria","version":"1.0","type":"link"}