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    "title": "Pierre (Or, the Ambiguities)",
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    "description": "Pierre Glendinning Jr. is a nineteen-year-old heir who lives with his widowed mother at their family manor in upstate New York. Engaged to the beautiful and respectable Lucy Tartan, Pierre stands to inherit\u2014with his mother\u2019s approval\u2014a life of comfort and wealth. When he meets a young woman named Isabel Banford, his father\u2019s illegitimate daughter, Pierre devises a plan he believes will solve everyone\u2019s problems: he will marry Isabel, who will inherit her share of their father\u2019s wealth, thereby preserving his father\u2019s honor and sparing his mother the embarrassment of her husband\u2019s infidelity. Pierre marries Isabel in secret, and when he tells his mother is thrown out of the house and cut off from his family for good. He moves with Isabel to New York City, where he hopes to make a life for himself as a writer, but the sins of the past refuse to let him rest as he wrestles with his choices and discovers the true nature of his seemingly good intentions.",
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