{"product_id":"2026200012831-secondhand-the-musk-ox-and-other-tales","title":"The Musk-Ox And Other Tales","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: Tanning and foxing\u003cbr\u003eMarkings: Previous owner\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFrom the depths of nineteenth-century Russia, Nikolai Semyonovich Leskov crafts a portrait of human nature at once ruthless and tender — The Musk-Ox and Other Tales, the first volume in the collected tales series, presents a rich mosaic of characters drawn from the peasantry, the clergy, and the forgotten margins of Imperial Russian society. The title story chronicles the tragic journey of Bogoslovsky, a brooding idealist nicknamed the Musk-Ox, whose fierce moral convictions place him at irreconcilable odds with the indifferent world around him, while the accompanying tales illuminate the everyday comedies and quiet devastations of Russian provincial life.\n\nLeskov, long considered one of Russia's most gifted yet underappreciated prose stylists, writes with an ear finely tuned to the rhythms of oral storytelling — his skaz technique, a mode of narration that mimics the cadences of spoken folk tale, lends each story an intimacy and immediacy that feels both ancient and urgently alive. His work sits in a singular position within the Russian literary canon, acknowledged by Tolstoy as a writer of extraordinary moral vision, yet never quite captured by the dominant currents of realism or romanticism. Published by the esteemed Routledge imprint in London, this volume introduces English-language readers to a writer whose insight into the human condition rewards every careful reader — and leaves one wondering why the world took so long to listen.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Secondhand Stock","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49203262521563,"sku":"2026200012831-SECONDHAND","price":40.0,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0523\/7646\/9701\/files\/050b27e5-102f-4cb0-ba63-0ded83895d7d.png?v=1788146763","url":"https:\/\/bookgrocer.com\/products\/2026200012831-secondhand-the-musk-ox-and-other-tales","provider":"Book Grocer","version":"1.0","type":"link"}