{"product_id":"2026200012931-secondhand-selected-short-stories-1892-1901","title":"Selected Short Stories: 1892-1901","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eCondition remarks:\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eBook: Good\u003cbr\u003eJacket: Wear and tear with damage\u003cbr\u003ePages: Good\u003cbr\u003eCondition remarks: Some damage to jacket on spine - still intact.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFrom the turbulent twilight of Tsarist Russia emerges the unflinching voice of Maxim Gorky — a writer who rose from poverty and the fringes of society to become one of the most powerful literary forces of the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Selected Short Stories: 1892–1901 gathers the finest works from the formative decade of Gorky's career, chronicling the lives of vagabonds, peasants, merchants, and dreamers against the vast, unforgiving backdrop of Russia's social and moral landscape. Each story presents a world caught between the crumbling old order and the restless stirrings of revolution, rendered with a raw immediacy that is at once journalistic and deeply humane.\n\nGorky's prose style is deceptively spare, wielding precise, unadorned language to expose the contradictions of human dignity and social injustice with devastating effect. These early stories — including celebrated works such as Chelkash, Makar Chudra, and Twenty-Six Men and a Girl — established his reputation as the father of Soviet literature and a towering figure of literary realism, drawing comparisons to Tolstoy and Chekhov while carving out a fiercely original voice. Published by the Foreign Languages Publishing House in Moscow, this edition stands as an enduring testament to Gorky's belief that literature must bear witness to the forgotten and the dispossessed — a conviction that leaves the reader questioning what it truly means to be free.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Secondhand Stock","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49203278676187,"sku":"2026200012931-SECONDHAND","price":30.0,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0523\/7646\/9701\/files\/bb1c2821-d97f-47fe-9e93-89e05f4f3433.png?v=1788147349","url":"https:\/\/bookgrocer.com\/products\/2026200012931-secondhand-selected-short-stories-1892-1901","provider":"Book Grocer","version":"1.0","type":"link"}