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Maxim Gorky
Book List in Order: 41 titles
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My Childhood
- Sep-1966
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Coloured by poverty and horrifying brutality, Gorky's childhood equipped him to understand - in a way denied to a Tolstoy or a Turgenev - the life of the ordinary Russian. After his father, a paperhanger and upholsterer, died of cholera, five-year-ol...
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The Lower Depths
- Apr-1974
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The Lower Depths: A Drama in Four Acts by Maksim Gorky has been regarded as significant work throughout human history, and in order to ensure that this work is never lost, we have taken steps to ensure its preservation by republishing this book i...
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My Apprenticeship
- Oct-1974
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Maxim Gorky (1868-1936) was sent out into the world at the age of 11 to fend for himself. This second volume of his autobiographical trilogy records his first encounters with the senseless, violent side of Russian society during the later years of th...
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My Universities
- Aug-1979
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Written by the founding father of socialist realism in literature, this is an autobiographical work. The author also wrote "Fragments from my Diary", "My Apprenticeship", "My Childhood", "The Lower Depths", "The Zykovs" and "Children of the Sun"....
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The Collected Short Stories Of Maxim Gorky
- Jun-1988
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Maxim Gorky continues to be regarded as the greatest literary representative of revolutionary Russia. Born of the people, and having experienced in his own person their sufferings and their misery, he was enabled by his extraordinary genius to voice ...
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Tales Of Italy
- Sep-2001
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Gorky's participation in the Russian revolution of 1905, his public opposition to the granting of loans to czarist Russia by the West, and the publication of his novel "Mother" made it impossible for the writer to reside in Russia. His health too was...
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Stories Of The Steppe
- Jun-2003
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Maxim Gorky, the bitter Voice of Russia, can tell fairy tales whose coloring has all the richness of oriental twilights and whose cadences are garlands woven of sea-spray and wind-blossoms. His stories of the steppe are not propagandistic, and with t...
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Creatures That Once Were Men, and Other Stories
- Jul-2013
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Alexei Maximovich Peshkov (Russian 28 March 1868 â€" 18 June 1936), primarily known as Maxim (Maksim) Gorky , was a Russian and Soviet writer, a founder of the socialist realism literary method and a political activist. Around fifteen years before su...
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Twenty-Six and One and Other Stories
- Jul-2013
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From the introduction by Ivan Strannik: "The interest of these stories does not lie in the unraveling of an intricate plot. They are rather fragments of life, bits of biography covering some particular period, without reaching the limits of a real...
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One Autumn Night
- May-2014
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Alexei Maximovich Peshkov 28 March 1868 â€" 18 June 1936, primarily known as Maxim (Maksim) Gorky was a Russian and Soviet writer, a founder of the Socialist realism literary method and a political activist. Gorky's reputation grew as a unique litera...
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Tchelkache
- May-2014
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Alexei Maximovich Peshkov 28 March 1868 - 18 June 1936, primarily known as Maxim (Maksim) Gorky was a Russian and Soviet writer, a founder of the Socialist realism literary method and a political activist. Gorky's reputation grew as a unique literary...
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Maksim Gorky, Collection
- Nov-2014
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Alexei Maximovich Peshkov, Maksim Gorky, (1868 â€" 1936), was a Russian and Soviet writer, a founder of the Socialist realism literary method and a political activist. But with the publication of “Chelkash†(1895) in a leading St. Petersburg jour...
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The Lower Depths ; a Play in Four Acts
- Oct-2022
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Unlike some other reproductions of classic texts (1) We have not used OCR(Optical Character Recognition), as this leads to bad quality books with introduced typos. (2) In books where there are images such as portraits, maps, sketches etc We have ende...
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Reminiscences of Anton Chekhov
- Oct-2022
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Many of the earliest books, particularly those dating back to the 1900s and before, are now extremely scarce and increasingly expensive. We are republishing these classic works in affordable, high quality, modern editions, using the original text and...
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Bystander
This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the original. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available a...
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Chelkash and Other Stories
The first great Russian writer to emerge from the ranks of the proletariat, Maxim Gorky (1868â€"1936) was born into poverty and orphaned at an early age. Entirely self-taught, he experienced firsthand the suffering, injustice, and despair which perme...
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Creatures That Once Were Men
Another classic converted by eBooksLib.com.It is certainly a curious fact that so many of the voices of what is called our modern religion have come from countries which are not only simple, but may even be called barbaric. A nation like Norway has ...
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Foma Gordyeeff
Another classic converted by eBooksLib.com.OUT of the darkest depths of life, where vice and crime and misery abound, comes the Byron of the twentieth century, the poet of the vagabond and the proletariat, Maxim Gorky. Not like the beggar, humbly imp...
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The Man Who Was Afraid
Classic novel by the popular and influential Russian author, a founder of the socialist realism literary method and arguably the greatest Russian literary figure of the 20th century. He wrote stories, plays, memoirs and novels which touched the imagi...
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Mother
Maksim Gorky was a Soviet author and founder of the socialist realism literary method. He was also a political activist who spent several lengthy stays in Capri and Italy. Gorky traveled throughout his native land and at one point became friends with...
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Reminiscences of Leo Nikolaevich Tolstoy
This is an OCR edition without illustrations or index. It may have numerous typos or missing text. However, purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original rare book from the publisher's website (GeneralBooksClub.com). You can also previe...
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Tales of Two Countries
Excerpt from Tales of Two Countries
A blue lake is deeply set in mountains capped with eternal snow. A dark net work oi gardens descends in gorgeous folds to the water. White houses that look like lumps of sugar peer down from the bank into the l... -
Through Russia
A collection of short stories by the popular and influential Russian author, a founder of the socialist realism literary method and arguably the greatest Russian literary figure of the 20th century. He wrote stories, plays, memoirs and novels which t...
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The Confession
This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work was reproduced from the original artifact, and remains as true to the original work as possible. Therefo...
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The Spy
This is a reproduction of a book published before 1923. This book may have occasional imperfections such as missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. that were either part of the original artifact, or were introduced by the scanning...
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The Spy; The Story of a Superfluous Man
This is the story of a man, that never found the courage to face his fears. Suffering from tormenting thoughts, but also by an invincible cowardice, lives his life as a spectator, letting himself being dragged by events, which lead him to end up as a...
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Three Of Them
This is a pre-1923 historical reproduction that was curated for quality. Quality assurance was conducted on each of these books in an attempt to remove books with imperfections introduced by the digitization process. Though we have made best efforts ...
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Twenty-Six and One
This is a reproduction of a book published before 1923. This book may have occasional imperfections such as missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. that were either part of the original artifact, or were introduced by the scanning...
