{"product_id":"english-eccentrics-and-eccentricities","title":"English Eccentrics and Eccentricities","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eWhat happens when respectability meets people who refuse to live by anyone else’s rules?\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn English Eccentrics and Eccentricities, John Timbs gathers short portraits of Britain’s curious characters. Misers guard their money, hoarders cling to possessions, and recluses shut out visitors. These accounts follow habits, fears and fixations that make their owners stand apart from the people around them.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAgainst a Victorian world that prizes routine and good manners, each odd life raises a question: who decides what counts as normal? Timbs offers cases rather than a single argument. His collection moves through money, solitude and broken customs, letting you smile, wince or wonder at the distance between private desires and public expectations.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eInside this book\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eMisers and their money\u003c\/strong\u003e – Meet people whose troubled relationship with wealth turns saving and keeping into consuming fixations.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eLives behind closed doors\u003c\/strong\u003e – Follow recluses who withdraw from visitors and make solitude a rule of life.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eRespectability meets resistance\u003c\/strong\u003e – See how unusual habits expose the customs and expectations surrounding those who break them.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eFacts with a smile\u003c\/strong\u003e – Enjoy Timbs’s blend of gathered detail and humor as one curious portrait follows another.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eSmall stories to savor\u003c\/strong\u003e – Dip into short anecdotes without following one plot or committing to a sustained argument.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\u003cp\u003ePerfect for lovers of curiosities, Victorian reading habits and British social history, and anyone who enjoys a short, unusual anecdote.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eOpen the first page now and meet people who make ordinary habits look anything but inevitable.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Library of Alexandria Press","offers":[{"title":"eBook","offer_id":58289389371740,"sku":"LOA-C2108-EB","price":0.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false},{"title":"Audiobook","offer_id":58289389404508,"sku":"LOA-C2108-AU","price":0.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false},{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":58289389437276,"sku":"LOA-C2108-PB","price":22.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false},{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":58289389470044,"sku":"LOA-C2108-HC","price":31.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1027\/9442\/8764\/files\/loa-top-02108-en_f8dd2886-0fc9-4cd7-913b-c5b35ffbca10.jpg?v=1792697436","url":"https:\/\/libraryofalexandria.com\/ja\/products\/english-eccentrics-and-eccentricities","provider":"The Library of Alexandria","version":"1.0","type":"link"}