{"product_id":"behind-a-mask-or-a-womans-power-a-classic-tale-of-deception-ambition-and-a-womans-hidden-power-paperback","title":"Behind a Mask -Or- A Woman's Power - A Classic Tale of Deception, Ambition, and a Woman's Hidden Power - Paperback","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eLouisa May Alcott\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eA seemingly modest governess enters a respectable household and quietly begins to expose, manipulate, and conquer everyone around her.\u003c\/strong\u003e In \u003cem\u003eBehind a Mask; or, A Woman's Power\u003c\/em\u003e, Jean Muir arrives at the Coventry estate appearing pale, humble, talented, and dependent. But behind her carefully performed weakness is a woman of intelligence, discipline, ambition, and theatrical control, determined to remake her position in a world that gives women few honest paths to power.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ePublished under Louisa May Alcott's pseudonym A. M. Barnard, this sensational novella reveals the darker, sharper side of the author best known for \u003cem\u003eLittle Women\u003c\/em\u003e. It combines domestic fiction, psychological suspense, class conflict, romance, deception, and Gothic atmosphere in a story where manners become weapons and femininity itself becomes a mask. Jean Muir's performance unsettles the household because it exposes how easily virtue, authority, desire, and social rank can be staged.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFirst published in 1866, \u003cem\u003eBehind a Mask\u003c\/em\u003e remains one of Alcott's most fascinating works of sensation fiction. For readers interested in Victorian domestic suspense, women's power, literary pseudonyms, classic psychological fiction, and the hidden tensions beneath respectable family life, this novella offers a brisk, unsettling, and surprisingly modern portrait of ambition disguised as submission.\u003c\/p\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 100\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.24 x 9 x 6 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e January 26, 2012\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":54051553182003,"sku":"9781617205958","price":25.79,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0300\/5595\/6612\/files\/rFdTKAhGw9781617205958.webp?v=1788996301","url":"https:\/\/www.vysn.com\/products\/behind-a-mask-or-a-womans-power-a-classic-tale-of-deception-ambition-and-a-womans-hidden-power-paperback","provider":"VYSN","version":"1.0","type":"link"}