{"product_id":"9781502301680","title":"The Dramatis Personae: Stories for Inventing History","description":"Over twenty incredible, exclusive stories from the past, present, and future lives of Nathan Coppedge: the text includes two sections. The first section is called 'The Self, ' and is devoted to Nathan Coppedge's interesting incarnations as a 'cave boy, ' 'the urchin of Ur, ' one of the Eight Chinese Immortals, the Egyptian god of Astonishment, the burner of the Library of Alexandria, the inventor of the book, a child who names himself the end of humanity, Pippin son of William Tell, Pharisee the Fakir, Marie d' Antoinette, the spy Aaron Burr, the self-made Rip Van Winkl, someone who believed himself to be Euler, a homeless bum named the Burgher King, a soul inside a super-computer, Eucaleh or Nathan Coppedge and a number of quasi-devilish future lives. Section Two is called 'Others, ' and is devoted to a variety of personalities which Coppedge feels influenced history---all of them concocted with a faculty for creative invention. This is alternate history-in-the-making, all from the standpoint of a self-described 'potential novelist.' Coppedge is something of a genius, and these stories stand out for their color and realism, in spite of the ma","brand":"CreateSpace Publishing","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48533548957937,"sku":"9781502301680","price":12.91,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0674\/5433\/7265\/files\/9781502301680_p0.jpg?v=1786320338","url":"https:\/\/shop.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781502301680","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble","version":"1.0","type":"link"}