{"product_id":"2026200013100-secondhand-the-enchanted-pilgrim-and-other-stories","title":"The Enchanted Pilgrim: And Other Stories","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eCondition remarks:\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eBook: Good\u003cbr\u003eJacket: Damaged\u003cbr\u003ePages: Tanning and foxing\u003cbr\u003eMarkings: Previous owner,Fair - Rubbed edges and bumping on spine and corners\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFrom the depths of nineteenth-century Russia emerges a collection of tales that captures the soul of a nation in turbulent flux — Nikolai Leskov's The Enchanted Pilgrim and Other Stories is a masterwork of Russian literature, translated by David Magarshack, that chronicles the extraordinary wanderings of Ivan Flyagin, a man of boundless spirit and contradictory impulses, across the vast steppes and spiritual landscapes of Imperial Russia. At the heart of this collection stands the titular novella, a picaresque odyssey in which Flyagin — part sinner, part saint — recounts a life of violence, servitude, and unexpected grace, embodying the restless, suffering Russian soul that Leskov so brilliantly illuminated.\n\nLeskov stands apart from his great contemporaries — Tolstoy, Dostoyevsky, Turgenev — not through grand philosophical treatises, but through an extraordinary gift for storytelling rooted in the vernacular traditions of the Russian people, presenting characters of moral ambiguity with warmth, irony, and profound humanity. His prose, faithfully rendered here by Magarshack, carries the cadence of oral tradition, as though each tale were whispered by firelight in a remote village inn. For readers who have yet to discover Leskov's singular genius, this collection offers an irresistible portal into a Russia that is at once mythic and achingly real — leaving one to wonder how such a towering literary voice remained in the shadows of world literature for so long.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Secondhand Stock","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49216211026139,"sku":"2026200013100-SECONDHAND","price":20.0,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0523\/7646\/9701\/files\/dcf51bea-01fd-4ba5-996f-1956052bc51d.png?v=1788405424","url":"https:\/\/bookgrocer.com\/products\/2026200013100-secondhand-the-enchanted-pilgrim-and-other-stories","provider":"Book Grocer","version":"1.0","type":"link"}