{ "item_title" : "Luck Or Cunning?", "item_author" : [" Samuel Butler "], "item_description" : "Luck or Cunning? is a novel written by Samuel Butler, which was first published in 1886. The book tells the story of a young man named Tom, who is born into a wealthy family but is left penniless after his father's death. Tom is forced to make his own way in the world, relying on his wit and cunning to survive. He becomes a successful businessman and eventually marries a woman named Mary, who is also from a wealthy family. However, their marriage is not a happy one, and Tom's cunning ways lead to his downfall. The novel explores the themes of wealth, power, and morality, and raises questions about the nature of success and the role of luck in our lives. Butler's writing is witty and satirical, and his characters are vividly drawn. Overall, Luck or Cunning? is a thought-provoking and entertaining read that offers insights into human nature and the pursuit of success.In brief, there is nothing in life of which there are not germs, and, so to speak, harmonics in death, and nothing in death of which germs and harmonics may not be found in life. Each emphasizes what the other passes over most lightly--each carries to its extreme conceivable development that which in the other is only sketched in by a faint suggestion--but neither has any feature rigorously special to itself. Granted that death is a greater new departure in an organism's life, than any since that congeries of births and deaths to which the name embryonic stages is commonly given, still it is a new departure of the same essential character as any other-- that is to say, though there be much new there is much, not to say more, old along with it. We shrink from it as from any other change to the unknown, and also perhaps from an instinctive sense that the fear of death is a sine qua non for physical and moral progress, but the fear is like all else in life, a substantial thing which, if its foundations be dug about, is found to rest on a superstitious basis.This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the old original and may contain some imperfections such as library marks and notations. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as part of our commitment for protecting, preserving, and promoting the world's literature in affordable, high quality, modern editions, that are true to their original work.", "item_img_path" : "https://covers2.booksamillion.com/covers/bam/1/16/267/202/1162672021_b.jpg", "price_data" : { "retail_price" : "25.95", "online_price" : "25.95", "our_price" : "25.95", "club_price" : "25.95", "savings_pct" : "0", "savings_amt" : "0.00", "club_savings_pct" : "0", "club_savings_amt" : "0.00", "discount_pct" : "10", "store_price" : "" } }

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