The Enchanted Wanderer: Lady Macbeth Of Mtsensk; The Make-Up Artist; The Old Genius; Lefty; The Sentry
Condition: SECONDHAND
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Condition remarks:
Book: Good
Jacket: Chipped and worn with some minor damage
Pages: Good
Few writers captured the soul of nineteenth-century Russia with the raw, vivid intensity of Nikolai Leskov, and The Enchanted Wanderer stands as a towering testament to his singular genius. This celebrated anthology gathers six of his most compelling tales — including the dark and operatic Lady Macbeth of Mtsensk, the tragicomic Lefty, and the quietly devastating The Sentry — each one a window into the lives of ordinary Russians navigating fate, faith, moral compromise, and an indifferent society. The title story chronicles the picaresque odyssey of Ivan Flyagin, a man of almost mythic resilience who wanders through serfdom, war, and spiritual crisis, carried along by a destiny he can neither escape nor fully understand. Leskov writes with a storyteller's instinct and a moralist's conscience, weaving together folk idiom, Orthodox spirituality, and sharp social observation into a prose style entirely his own — one that Tolstoy admired and that Gorky called the most Russian of all Russian writers. Each tale in this collection presents a different facet of the national character: its capacity for suffering, its dark humour, its fierce tenderness. Read together, they form a portrait of a civilization caught between its ancient traditions and a modernising world — a tension that remains as electrifying today as it was in Leskov's own turbulent century.
Author: Nikolai Leskov
Format: Hardback
Genre: Classic fiction
Condition remarks:
Book: Good
Jacket: Chipped and worn with some minor damage
Pages: Good
Few writers captured the soul of nineteenth-century Russia with the raw, vivid intensity of Nikolai Leskov, and The Enchanted Wanderer stands as a towering testament to his singular genius. This celebrated anthology gathers six of his most compelling tales — including the dark and operatic Lady Macbeth of Mtsensk, the tragicomic Lefty, and the quietly devastating The Sentry — each one a window into the lives of ordinary Russians navigating fate, faith, moral compromise, and an indifferent society. The title story chronicles the picaresque odyssey of Ivan Flyagin, a man of almost mythic resilience who wanders through serfdom, war, and spiritual crisis, carried along by a destiny he can neither escape nor fully understand. Leskov writes with a storyteller's instinct and a moralist's conscience, weaving together folk idiom, Orthodox spirituality, and sharp social observation into a prose style entirely his own — one that Tolstoy admired and that Gorky called the most Russian of all Russian writers. Each tale in this collection presents a different facet of the national character: its capacity for suffering, its dark humour, its fierce tenderness. Read together, they form a portrait of a civilization caught between its ancient traditions and a modernising world — a tension that remains as electrifying today as it was in Leskov's own turbulent century.