{"product_id":"the-pygmy-planet-von-john-stewart-williamson","title":"THE PYGMY PLANET","description":"\u003cp\u003e\"Nothing ever happens to me!\" Larry Manahan grumbled under his breath, \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003esitting behind his desk at the advertising agency which employed his \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eservices in return for the consideration of fifty a week. \"All the adventure I \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eknow is what I see in the movies, or read about in magazines. What \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ewouldn't I give for a slice of real life!\" \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eUnconsciously, he tensed the muscles of his six feet of lean, hard body. His \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ecrisp, flame-colored hair seemed to bristle; his blue eyes blazed. He \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eclenched a brown hammer of a fist. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eLarry felt himself an energetic, red-blooded square peg, badly afflicted \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ewith the urge for adventure, miserably wedged in a round hole. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIt is one of the misfortunes of our civilization that a young man who, for \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eexample, might have been an excellent pirate a couple of centuries ago, \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003emust be kept chained to a desk. And that seemed to be Larry's fate. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"Things happen to other people,\" he muttered. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"Why couldn't an adventure come to me?\" \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eHe sat, staring wistfully at a picture of a majestic mountain landscape, soon \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eto be used in the advertising of a railway company whose publicity was \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ehandled by his agency, when the jangle of the telephone roused him with a \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003estart.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cdiv class=\"aw-variant-hidden-subtitle-div\" id=\"aw-variant-subtitle-9791041985562\"\u003e\u003ch3\u003eA Journey into the Infinitely Small: The Adventures of Larry Manahan\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Autorenwelt Shop","offers":[{"title":"Softcover - 9791041985562","offer_id":47639382491461,"sku":"9791041985562","price":12.99,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0940\/0622\/files\/77a9deec-b1e6-4f68-a23c-3d4911740f46.jpg?v=1768460481","url":"https:\/\/shop.autorenwelt.de\/products\/the-pygmy-planet-von-john-stewart-williamson","provider":"Autorenwelt Shop","version":"1.0","type":"link"}