{"product_id":"2026200013640-secondhand-the-three","title":"The Three","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\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn the teeming, restless world of late nineteenth-century Russia, three boyhood friends—Ilya Lunyev, Pavekin, and Grazhdanin—grow up side by side in the same impoverished yard, yet are pulled apart by wildly diverging ambitions, moral compasses, and fates. Maxim Gorky's The Three chronicles this trio's turbulent passage from childhood innocence into the harsh realities of adult life, painting a vivid portrait of a society straining under the weight of class inequality, spiritual yearning, and moral corruption. The novel tracks Ilya's particularly anguished journey — a man consumed by the drive to rise above his station, only to find that wealth and respectability bring neither peace nor redemption.\n\nGorky writes with the unflinching social conscience that cemented his place as one of Russia's most vital literary voices and a founding father of Socialist Realism. His prose is at once lyrical and brutally honest, illuminating the psychological torment of individuals caught between personal desire and collective suffering. The Three stands as a powerful meditation on ambition, guilt, friendship, and the elusive nature of human happiness — and leaves the reader asking whether any escape from one's origins is ever truly possible.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Secondhand Stock","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49203392708827,"sku":"2026200013640-SECONDHAND","price":15.0,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0523\/7646\/9701\/files\/18c02097-1e82-4f1b-afd0-5774346794e9.png?v=1788148418","url":"https:\/\/bookgrocer.com\/products\/2026200013640-secondhand-the-three","provider":"Book Grocer","version":"1.0","type":"link"}