{"product_id":"2026200011706-secondhand-tales-of-italy","title":"Tales Of Italy","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eCondition remarks:\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eBook: Good\u003cbr\u003eJacket: Chipped and worn with some minor damage\u003cbr\u003ePages: Good\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBeneath 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.\n\nGorky'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.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Secondhand Stock","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49130863165659,"sku":"2026200011706-SECONDHAND","price":15.0,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0523\/7646\/9701\/files\/d123ac99-f77e-456f-95af-bc049feee69f.png?v=1786591369","url":"https:\/\/bookgrocer.com\/products\/2026200011706-secondhand-tales-of-italy","provider":"Book Grocer","version":"1.0","type":"link"}