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In the World
Maxim Gorky, pseudonym of Alexei Maksimovich Peshkov, Soviet novelist, playwright and essayist, who was a founder of social realism. Although known principally as a writer, he was …
Reminiscences of Anton Chekhov
Excerpt: "e;I think that in Anton Chekhov's presence every one involuntarily felt in himself a desire to be simpler, more truthful, more one's self; I often saw how people cast …
Creatures That Once Were Men
(Excerpt): "e;In front of you is the main street, with two rows of miserable looking huts with shuttered windows and old walls pressing on each other and leaning forward. The …
Tales of Two Countries
A volume of short stories representing the later work of the Russian novelist, the fruit of his sojourn in Capri. It is interesting to note how this change of environment altered …
Tales from Gorky
(Excerpt): "e;We should not give very much for the chances of a poor friendless lad of feeble constitution, vagrant disposition, and an overpowering taste for excitement, who …
Twenty-six and One and Other Stories
Maxim Gorky is the pen name of Aleksei Maksimovich Peshkov -- orphaned at the age of nine, he was raised by his grandmother, a story-teller, who imprinted on him a love for tales …
Confession
The novel, written in the times when Gorky became keenly interested in the new quasi-religious God-Building movement, horrified Vladimir Lenin who on several occasions criticized …
Man Who Was Afraid
(Excerpt): "e;About sixty years ago, when fortunes of millions had been made on the Volga with fairy-tale rapidity, Ignat Gordyeeff, a young fellow, was working as …
Spy The Story of a Superfluous Man
This is a story of a young man, Yevsey Kimkov, who became a government spy, when the Russian Empire was on the brink of its first revolution (1905). The novel shows the Yevsey's …
Lower Depths A Drama in Four Acts
(Excerpt): "e;In "e;The Lower Depths"e; more than in any other single play throughout its history, the Moscow Art Theatre concentrates its dramatic ideals and methods, …