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$description = '<p>Called “the premier American war novel from World War I,” Hemingway’s semi-autobiographical story of an American ambulance driver serving in the Italian front, and a bright and cynical British nurse, cemented his reputation as one of the generation’s foremost literary figures. Unlike Remarque, whose <i>All Quiet on the Western Front</i> paints the war’s destruction in full color, Hemingway’s story is one of the mundanity of war—of the quotidian smallness that underpins even the most horrific of events.</p>'; $description = '<p>Called “the premier American war novel from World War I,” Hemingway’s semi-autobiographical story of an American ambulance driver serving in the Italian front, and a bright and cynical British nurse, cemented his reputation as one of the generation’s foremost literary figures. Unlike Remarque, whose <i>All Quiet on the Western Front</i> paints the war’s destruction in full color, Hemingway’s story is one of the mundanity of war—of the quotidian smallness that underpins even the most horrific of events.</p>';
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case 'url:https://standardebooks.org/ebooks/john-steinbeck/cup-of-gold': case 'url:https://standardebooks.org/ebooks/john-steinbeck/cup-of-gold':
$description = '<p><i>Cup of Gold</i> is John Steinbeck’s first novel, the swashbuckling story of the real-life Captain Morgan, legendary pirate. Little of Morgan’s actual life is known, but Steinbeck fills in the blanks of this rich historical fiction with rich portraits of Caribbean ports and flourishes of magical realism.</p><p>While one might expect a rollicking tale of adventure, the novel is actually a deep meditation on the pursuit of—and inability to find—true happiness, and its skillful craft deftly foreshadows Steinbeck’s later ascension to literary titanhood.</p>'; $description = '<p><i>Cup of Gold</i> is John Steinbeck’s first novel, the swashbuckling story of the real-life Captain Morgan, legendary pirate. Little of Morgan’s actual life is known, but Steinbeck fills in the blanks of this rich historical fiction with lush portraits of Caribbean ports and flourishes of magical realism.</p><p>While one might expect a rollicking tale of adventure, the novel is actually a deep meditation on the pursuit of—and inability to find—true happiness, and its skillful craft deftly foreshadows Steinbeck’s later ascension to literary titanhood.</p>';
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case 'url:https://standardebooks.org/ebooks/dashiell-hammett/red-harvest': case 'url:https://standardebooks.org/ebooks/dashiell-hammett/red-harvest':
$description = '<p><i>Red Harvest</i> is Dashiell Hammett’s first full-length novel to feature the <a href="/collections/continental-op">Continental Op</a>, the nameless, hard-drinking, cynical private eye that single-handedly created the archetype of the hard-boiled detective. The novel is a fast-paced, tightly-written murder thriller that simultaneously touches all the bases of, and <em>defines</em>, the classic noir style that was much-imitated, and later much-spoofed, in the following century.</p>'; $description = '<p><i>Red Harvest</i> is Dashiell Hammett’s first full-length novel to feature the <a href="/collections/continental-op">Continental Op</a>, the nameless, hard-drinking, cynical private eye that single-handedly created the archetype of the hard-boiled detective. The novel is a fast-paced, tightly-written murder thriller that simultaneously touches all the bases of, and <em>defines</em>, the classic noir style that was much-imitated, and later much-spoofed, in the following century.</p>';