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(0)Maksim Gorky
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Publisher
Ivan R. Dee
Pub. Date
2010
Language
English
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Aleksey Peshkov overcame indigence, violence, and suicidal despair to become Maksim Gorky, one of the most widely read and influential writers of the twentieth century. Childhood, the first book in Gorky''s acclaimed autobiographical trilogy, depicts his early years, when after his father''s death he was taken to live in the home of his maternal grandfather, a violent and vindictive man who both provided the child with a rudimentary education...
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English
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In Gorky's greatest work, the characters are the dregs of society hovelled in a ramshackle inn: a thief, a degenerate baron, a prostitute, an alcoholic actor, the seedy proprietor, his sister-in-law who loves the thief and others. Their discontent grows until a whistler comes to perk up their spirits and they begin to grow hopeful. In one of their quarrels a brawl erupts, the proprietor is killed, others are jailed and the drunken actor rises to the...
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Language
Russian
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The author's last work, the idea of which arose shortly after the First Russian Revolution. Gorky initially wanted to call it "The History of an Empty Soul" and conceived it as a "novel of the century." It depicts not only the fate of an individual against the backdrop of historical events in Russia since the 1880s. until February 1918, but also the spiritual life of the Russian intelligentsia, as well as the theme of a people capable of changing...
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English
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These fragmentary notes were written by me during the period when I lived in Oleise and Leo Nikolaevich at Gaspra in the Crimea. They cover the period of Tolstoy's serious illness and of his subsequent recovery. The notes were carelessly jotted down on scraps of paper, and I thought I had lost them, but recently I have found some of them . . . I include here an unfinished written by me under the influence of the "going away" of Leo Nikolaevich from...
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Series
Collier books Russian classics volume BS68V
Publisher
Collier Books
Pub. Date
[©1962]
Language
English