{"_id":"6292c393fa5c01e51eff5e92","title":"The Old City Of Marseilles","publish_year":1909,"author":"Aleksandr I. Kuprin","code":"the-old-city-of-marseilles","words":2225,"image":"guitar.jpg","image_alt":"A guitar being played by elderly hands. Graphite filter.","genres":["literary"],"description":"A man talks of the sinful but beautiful night-life of Marseilles, and of an amazing, mysterious guitarist that he once had the grace of hearing play.","blurb":"The women first, and then all the other visitors after them, got up from their places and surrounded the recumbent old man. From a neighboring dive came the sounds of a concertina harmonica. Someone tiptoed up to the door and closed it without a sound.","original_language":"Russian","translators":["B. Guilbert Guerney"],"rating":4,"unique_cover":"Sketch of old hands strumming guitar","cover_source":"Evan C. Lewis","has_review":false,"has_collections":[{"code":"music","title":"The Mystery of Music","collection_type":"theme"},{"code":"appreciation","title":"The Small Things"}]}