The Artamonovs
Condition: SECONDHAND
This is a secondhand book. The jacket image is a photograph of the exact copy we have in stock. This image shows the condition of this book. Further condition remarks are below.
Condition remarks:
Book: Good
Jacket: Wear and tear with damage
Pages: Tanning and foxing
At the heart of Russian literature's most sweeping family sagas stands The Artamonovs, Maxim Gorky's masterful chronicle of a merchant dynasty across three turbulent generations, tracing the rise and inevitable decay of a family business against the backdrop of pre-revolutionary Russia. The patriarch Ilya Artamonov founds a linen factory with iron ambition and relentless drive, but as power passes to his sons and grandsons, the original fire dims — replaced by weakness, resentment, and moral disintegration — while the world outside the family gates trembles on the edge of revolution. Gorky, one of the titans of Russian and Soviet literature, constructs this novel as both a social indictment and a profound meditation on legacy, capitalism, and the corrosive passage of time, rendered in his characteristically unsparing realism. Written in 1925, the work sits at a fascinating intersection between the 19th-century tradition of the great Russian novel and the ideological upheavals of the early Soviet era, giving it a unique, searching quality that rewards careful reading. The reader is left to wonder: when a dynasty crumbles from within, is it the people who fail — or the very idea of dynasty itself?
Author: M. Gorky
Format: Hardback
Published: 1952
Genre: Classic fiction
Condition remarks:
Book: Good
Jacket: Wear and tear with damage
Pages: Tanning and foxing
At the heart of Russian literature's most sweeping family sagas stands The Artamonovs, Maxim Gorky's masterful chronicle of a merchant dynasty across three turbulent generations, tracing the rise and inevitable decay of a family business against the backdrop of pre-revolutionary Russia. The patriarch Ilya Artamonov founds a linen factory with iron ambition and relentless drive, but as power passes to his sons and grandsons, the original fire dims — replaced by weakness, resentment, and moral disintegration — while the world outside the family gates trembles on the edge of revolution. Gorky, one of the titans of Russian and Soviet literature, constructs this novel as both a social indictment and a profound meditation on legacy, capitalism, and the corrosive passage of time, rendered in his characteristically unsparing realism. Written in 1925, the work sits at a fascinating intersection between the 19th-century tradition of the great Russian novel and the ideological upheavals of the early Soviet era, giving it a unique, searching quality that rewards careful reading. The reader is left to wonder: when a dynasty crumbles from within, is it the people who fail — or the very idea of dynasty itself?