{"product_id":"2026200017206-secondhand-the-artamonovs","title":"The Artamonovs","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eCondition remarks:\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eBook: Good\u003cbr\u003eJacket: Wear and tear with damage\u003cbr\u003ePages: Tanning and foxing\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAt 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.\n\nGorky, 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?\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Secondhand Stock","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49216190054619,"sku":"2026200017206-SECONDHAND","price":30.0,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0523\/7646\/9701\/files\/5ebf6423-f80c-42d8-9759-51e8c04df8de.png?v=1788404919","url":"https:\/\/bookgrocer.com\/products\/2026200017206-secondhand-the-artamonovs","provider":"Book Grocer","version":"1.0","type":"link"}