{"product_id":"timon-of-athens-shakespeare","title":"Timon of Athens by William Shakespeare","description":"\u003cstrong\u003eBy William Shakespeare\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe real Timon of Athens lived there in the fifth century BCE  making him a contemporary of Socrates and Pericles. Shakespeare presents Timon as a figure who suffers such profound disillusionment that he becomes a misanthrope  or man-hater. This makes him a more interesting character than the caricature he had become to Shakespeare's contemporaries  for whom \"Timonist\" was a slang term for an unsociable man.   Shakespeare's play includes the wealthy  magnificent  and extravagantly generous figure of Timon before his transformation. Timon expects that  having received as gifts all that he owned  his friends will be equally generous to him.   Once his creditors clamor for repayment  Timon finds that his idealization of friendship is an illusion. He repudiates his friends  abandons Athens  and retreats to the woods. Yet his misanthropy arises from the destruction of an admirable illusion  from which his subsequent hatred can never be entirely disentangled.","brand":"Lushena Books","offers":[{"title":"PAPERBACK","offer_id":52798813307160,"sku":"9798890966896","price":17.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true},{"title":"HARDCOVER","offer_id":52798813339928,"sku":"9798890966995","price":33.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0787\/8203\/8296\/files\/9798890966896.jpg?v=1790924779","url":"https:\/\/lushenabooksinc.com\/products\/timon-of-athens-shakespeare","provider":"Lushena","version":"1.0","type":"link"}