Overview

A collection of short stories by one of the most erninent Russian author, Maxim Gorky. Born as Alexei Maximovich Peshkov, this great man was a Russian writer and political activist. He was nominated five times for the Nobel Prize in Literature. Gorky's most famous works are his carly short stories, written in the 1890s; plays The Philistines (1901), The Lower Depths (1902) and Children of the Sun (1905); a poem, ""The Song of the Stormy Petrel"" (1901); his autobiographical trilogy, My Childhood, In the World, My Universities (1913-1923), and a novel, Mother (1906); and post-revolutionary works such as the novela The Artamonov Business (1925) and The Life of Klim Samgin (1925-1936), the latter is considered Gorky's masterpiece and has sometimes been viewed by criticьдма modernist work. He had associations with fellow Russian writers Leo Tolstoy and Anton Chekhov, both mentioned by Gorky in his memoirs.

Full Product Details

9789355469892

Table of Contents

Reviews

Author Information

Tab Content 6

Countries Available