{"product_id":"melusine-large-print","title":"Mélusine — Large Print","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eA fairy builds a powerful family’s future, but her marriage rests on one promise: leave her secret untouched.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAfter a hunting accident kills his uncle, Raymondin wanders through the forest and meets Mélusine beside a fountain. The fairy offers help, and their marriage brings wealth and power. But she asks for privacy every Saturday. In Jean d’Arras’s prose romance, the rise of the house of Lusignan depends on a husband’s willingness to keep his word.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eMélusine builds castles, founds towns and bears ten sons, several with strange marks. Around her, a family chronicle opens into knightly adventure and stories of crusades, reaching from Poitou to Cyprus and Armenia. Behind her own marriage lies another broken promise: the vow her father, King Elinas, makes to her mother, Pressine. Trust carries a heavy burden in this fairy tale.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eWhat you'll discover\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eA fairy who builds\u003c\/strong\u003e – Meet a heroine whose castles, towns and children shape the fortunes of Lusignan.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eThe promise of privacy\u003c\/strong\u003e – Follow a marriage in which love and prosperity depend on respecting one hidden secret.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eA fountain in moonlight\u003c\/strong\u003e – Enter the forest where a lost Raymondin encounters three ladies and an unexpected future.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eSons marked by wonder\u003c\/strong\u003e – Meet Urian and Geoffroy Great-Tooth, brothers whose unusual bodies belong to a strange family history.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eLegend woven into history\u003c\/strong\u003e – Discover how Jean d’Arras joins fairy enchantment with the chronicle of a noble house.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\u003cp\u003ePerfect for lovers of fairy tales, medieval legends and marriage secrets, and students of French history and folklore.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eOpen the first page and enter a world where a promise holds a family’s future.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Library of Alexandria Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":59534735868252,"sku":null,"price":0.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1027\/9442\/8764\/files\/12754_en_ebook-front_c22_c0ed91bc-54d3-411c-9aa6-1eef0a687a16.jpg?v=1792175153","url":"https:\/\/libraryofalexandria.com\/products\/melusine-large-print","provider":"The Library of Alexandria","version":"1.0","type":"link"}