{"product_id":"the-ring-and-the-book-9781848612532","title":"The Ring and the Book","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIf Sordello is a book-length poem, then The Ring and the Book-in its day regarded as Browning's greatest achievement, but today seemingly out of fashion-is something different. It is in fact a great novel, but one presented in blank verse, almost 21,000 lines of it, and in twelve books, each representing a different view of the action (a court case involving adultery and murder) by one of the protagonists. Why it has been called an \"epic poem\" is a puzzle; it is epic only in length; it is a poem only because it is in verse. Pushkin's Yevgeny Onegin is everywhere regarded as a novel, although it is in verse. The Ring and the Book is the greatest of all English verse novels; it is one of the great English novels of the 19th century; it is a remarkably modern novel in terms of narrative technique; it is, by any standard,s a great work of English Literature. It is offered by Shearsman in the author's bicentenary year, as it simply should not be out of print...","brand":"Shearsman Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51771607908695,"sku":"9781848612532","price":23.7,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9781848612532.jpg?v=1758728478","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/the-ring-and-the-book-9781848612532","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}