{"product_id":"2026200015484-secondhand-the-enchanted-wanderer-lady-macbeth-of-mtsensk-the-make-up-artist-the-old-genius-lefty-the-sentry","title":"The Enchanted Wanderer: Lady Macbeth Of Mtsensk; The Make-Up Artist; The Old Genius; Lefty; The Sentry","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: Good\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFew 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.\n\nLeskov 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.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Secondhand Stock","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49203214123227,"sku":"2026200015484-SECONDHAND","price":12.0,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0523\/7646\/9701\/files\/9315bb84-69d1-4a5c-9115-597980757c8c.png?v=1788145963","url":"https:\/\/bookgrocer.com\/products\/2026200015484-secondhand-the-enchanted-wanderer-lady-macbeth-of-mtsensk-the-make-up-artist-the-old-genius-lefty-the-sentry","provider":"Book Grocer","version":"1.0","type":"link"}