Tales Of Italy
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: Good
Jacket: Chipped and worn with some minor damage
Pages: Good
Beneath the sun-drenched skies and cobblestone piazzas of early twentieth-century Italy, Maxim Gorky — Russia's most celebrated literary voice — turns his unflinching gaze upon the lives of ordinary Italians: fishermen, peasants, artisans, and revolutionary dreamers. Tales of Italy is a luminous collection of short vignettes and stories that chronicles the beauty, poverty, passion, and resilience of the Italian people, as witnessed through the eyes of a Russian exile who found both refuge and inspiration on the country's shores. Gorky's prose is spare yet deeply humane, suffused with warmth and a revolutionary solidarity that cuts across national boundaries. Each tale presents a vivid portrait of working-class life, arguing — with quiet but persistent conviction — that dignity and humanity endure even in the harshest of circumstances. A masterwork of socialist realism that transcends its ideological roots, Tales of Italy leaves the reader wondering what other hidden worlds Gorky observed, and what it truly means to see a people as they are.
Author: M. Gorky
Format: Hardback
Genre: Fiction
Condition remarks:
Book: Good
Jacket: Chipped and worn with some minor damage
Pages: Good
Beneath the sun-drenched skies and cobblestone piazzas of early twentieth-century Italy, Maxim Gorky — Russia's most celebrated literary voice — turns his unflinching gaze upon the lives of ordinary Italians: fishermen, peasants, artisans, and revolutionary dreamers. Tales of Italy is a luminous collection of short vignettes and stories that chronicles the beauty, poverty, passion, and resilience of the Italian people, as witnessed through the eyes of a Russian exile who found both refuge and inspiration on the country's shores. Gorky's prose is spare yet deeply humane, suffused with warmth and a revolutionary solidarity that cuts across national boundaries. Each tale presents a vivid portrait of working-class life, arguing — with quiet but persistent conviction — that dignity and humanity endure even in the harshest of circumstances. A masterwork of socialist realism that transcends its ideological roots, Tales of Italy leaves the reader wondering what other hidden worlds Gorky observed, and what it truly means to see a people as they are.