My Apprenticeship
Condition: SECONDHAND
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Book: Good
Jacket: Wear and tear with damage
Pages: Tanning and foxing
A searing portrait of poverty, resilience, and the hunger for self-education, My Apprenticeship is the second volume of Maxim Gorky's celebrated autobiographical trilogy, chronicling his turbulent adolescence in late 19th-century Russia. Following the young Alexei Peshkov as he is thrust into a brutal world of manual labour — toiling in shoe shops, icon workshops, and on the banks of the Volga — Gorky presents a vivid, unflinching account of human cruelty and unexpected kindness at the lowest rungs of Russian society. Gorky's prose carries the raw, documentary power of a man who lived every word he wrote, transforming personal suffering into a profound meditation on class, dignity, and the indomitable human spirit. Regarded as one of the founding texts of Soviet socialist realism, the trilogy stands as a cornerstone of world literature, and this volume in particular illustrates how intellectual awakening can ignite within the most crushing of circumstances. Who will the young Alexei become — and at what cost to his soul?
Author: M. Gorky
Format: Hardback
Genre: Biography
Condition remarks:
Book: Good
Jacket: Wear and tear with damage
Pages: Tanning and foxing
A searing portrait of poverty, resilience, and the hunger for self-education, My Apprenticeship is the second volume of Maxim Gorky's celebrated autobiographical trilogy, chronicling his turbulent adolescence in late 19th-century Russia. Following the young Alexei Peshkov as he is thrust into a brutal world of manual labour — toiling in shoe shops, icon workshops, and on the banks of the Volga — Gorky presents a vivid, unflinching account of human cruelty and unexpected kindness at the lowest rungs of Russian society. Gorky's prose carries the raw, documentary power of a man who lived every word he wrote, transforming personal suffering into a profound meditation on class, dignity, and the indomitable human spirit. Regarded as one of the founding texts of Soviet socialist realism, the trilogy stands as a cornerstone of world literature, and this volume in particular illustrates how intellectual awakening can ignite within the most crushing of circumstances. Who will the young Alexei become — and at what cost to his soul?