Through Russia: A Book Of Stories
Condition: SECONDHAND
This is a secondhand book. The jacket image is a photograph of the exact copy we have in stock. This image shows the condition of this book. Further condition remarks are below.
Condition remarks:
Book: Fair
Jacket: No dust jacket - some marks on spine and corners
Pages: Some moisture damage
From the brooding steppes to the cramped quarters of the urban poor, Maxim Gorky's Through Russia: A Book of Stories presents a vivid and unflinching portrait of pre-revolutionary Russian life, capturing the restless souls, wanderers, and outcasts who populate the margins of a vast and turbulent empire. This celebrated short story collection chronicles a gallery of profoundly human characters — peasants, pilgrims, and dreamers — each rendered with Gorky's signature blend of raw compassion and unsentimental clarity, immersing the reader in a world teetering on the edge of seismic social change. Gorky, widely regarded as the father of Soviet literature and a master of Russian realism, writes with a moral urgency that transforms intimate vignettes into sweeping meditations on poverty, dignity, and the indomitable human spirit. His prose, at once lyrical and stark, carries the weight of lived experience — Gorky himself emerged from the very underclass he so powerfully depicts. With an introduction by A. B. McMillin and original illustrations by Lola Fielding, this Heron Books edition is a beautifully crafted volume that invites the reader to ask: what does it truly mean to endure?
Author: Maxim Gorky
Format: Hardback
Genre: Classic fiction
Condition remarks:
Book: Fair
Jacket: No dust jacket - some marks on spine and corners
Pages: Some moisture damage
From the brooding steppes to the cramped quarters of the urban poor, Maxim Gorky's Through Russia: A Book of Stories presents a vivid and unflinching portrait of pre-revolutionary Russian life, capturing the restless souls, wanderers, and outcasts who populate the margins of a vast and turbulent empire. This celebrated short story collection chronicles a gallery of profoundly human characters — peasants, pilgrims, and dreamers — each rendered with Gorky's signature blend of raw compassion and unsentimental clarity, immersing the reader in a world teetering on the edge of seismic social change. Gorky, widely regarded as the father of Soviet literature and a master of Russian realism, writes with a moral urgency that transforms intimate vignettes into sweeping meditations on poverty, dignity, and the indomitable human spirit. His prose, at once lyrical and stark, carries the weight of lived experience — Gorky himself emerged from the very underclass he so powerfully depicts. With an introduction by A. B. McMillin and original illustrations by Lola Fielding, this Heron Books edition is a beautifully crafted volume that invites the reader to ask: what does it truly mean to endure?