{"product_id":"tomorrows-eve","title":"Tomorrow's Eve","description":"\u003cp\u003eTake one inventive genius indebted to the friend who saved his life; add an English aristocrat hopelessly consumed with a selfish and spiritually bankrupt woman; stir together with a Faustian pact to create the perfect woman--and voilà! \u003cem\u003eTomorrow's Eve\u003c\/em\u003e is served. \u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cp\u003eRobert Martin Adams's graceful translation is the first to bring to English readers this captivating fable of a Thomas Edison-like inventor and his creation, the radiant and tragic android Hadaly. \u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cp\u003eAdams's introduction sketches the uncompromising idealism of the proud but penurious aristocrat Jean Marie Mathias Philippe Auguste, Count Villiers de l'Isle-Adam, a friend and admired colleague of Charles Baudelaire, Stèphane Mallarmé, and Richard Wagner. \u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cp\u003eVilliers dazzles us with a gallery of electronic wonders while unsettling us with the implications of his (and our) increasingly mechanized and mechanical society. A witty and acerbic tale in which human nature, spiritual values, and scientific possibilities collide, \u003cem\u003eTomorrow's Eve\u003c\/em\u003e retains an enduring freshness and edge.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"University of Illinois Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":54232913510744,"sku":"9780252069550","price":19.99,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0278\/1295\/4195\/files\/9780252069550.jpg?v=1782663324","url":"https:\/\/agendabookshop.com\/products\/tomorrows-eve","provider":"Agenda Bookshop","version":"1.0","type":"link"}