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  • My Childhood

    by Maxim Gorky ...
    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 imploring for a crust in the name of the Lord, nor like the jeweller displaying his precious stones to dazzle and tempt the eye, he comes to the world — nay, in accents of Tyrtaeus this commoner ... Read more

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  • 8 Classic Russian Novels You Should Read [Newly Updated] (Golden Deer Classics)

    Crime And Punishment, War And Peace, Dead Souls, Anna Karenina...

    by Leo Tolstoy, Golden Deer Classics, Nikolai Gogol, Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Ivan Goncharov, Ivan Turgenev, Maxim Gorky ...
    This Golden Deer Classics collection contains the following classic Russian novels: - Dead Souls by Nikolai Gogol - Oblomov by Ivan Goncharov - Fathers and Sons by Ivan Turgenev - Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoyevsky - War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy - Anna Karenina by LeoTolstoy - The Brothers Karamazov by Fyodor Dostoyevsky - Mother by Maxim Gorky ... Read more

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  • 50 Masterpieces you have to read before you die vol: 1

    by Louisa May Alcott, Jane Austen, Honoré de Balzac, Henri Barbusse, Anne Brontë, Charlotte Brontë, Emily Brontë, Edgar Rice Burroughs, Samuel Butler, Lewis Carroll, Willa Cather, Miguel de Cervantes, Kate Chopin, John Cleland, Wilkie Collins, Joseph Conrad, James Fenimore Cooper, Stephen Crane, E. E. Cummings, Daniel Defoe, Charles Dickens, Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Arthur Conan Doyle, Theodore Dreiser, Alexandre Dumas, George Eliot, Henry Fielding, Gustave Flaubert, Ford Madox Ford, E. M. Forster, Elizabeth Gaskell, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Nikolai Gogol, Maxim Gorky, Henry Rider Haggard, Thomas Hardy, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Victor Hugo, Aldous Huxley, Henry James, Homer ...
    This 1st volume contains the following 50 works, arranged alphabetically by authors' last names: Alcott, Louisa May: Little Women Austen, Jane: Pride and Prejudice Austen, Jane: Emma Balzac, Honoré de: Father Goriot Barbusse, Henri: The Inferno Brontë, Anne: The Tenant of Wildfell Hall Brontë, Charlotte: Jane Eyre Brontë, Emily: Wuthering Heights Burroughs, Edgar Rice: Tarzan of the Apes Butler, ... Read more

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  • Mother

    A Factory Woman Joins Her Son's Revolution

    by Maxim Gorky ...
    A factory woman in a Russian mill town watches her son become a revolutionary and, after he is taken, takes up the work herself. Gorky wrote it in America in 1906 while raising money for the movement; Lenin called it a very timely book, and it became the model for a whole official literature that followed. ... Read more

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  • Orlóff and His Wife

    Tales of the Barefoot Brigade

    by Maxim Gorky ...
    Translated by Isabel Florence Hapgood ...
    A cobbler and his wife in a Volga cellar quarrel, drink and beat each other until cholera comes to the town and both are taken on as hospital orderlies. Gorky published "Orlóff and His Wife" in 1897 out of the tramping years that made him; the other stories here come from the same road. Nothing is resolved and nobody is redeemed, which was the offence and the point. ... Read more

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  • Creatures That Once Were Men

    by Maxim Gorky ...
    First published in 1918, "Creatures That Once Were Men" is a collection of short stories by the popular and influential Russian author Maxim Gorky, a founder of the socialist realism literary method and arguably the greatest Russian literary figure of the 20th century.Gorky wrote stories, plays, memoirs and novels which touched the imagination of the Russian people, and was the first Russian ... Read more

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  • Tales of the Devil

    by Niccolò Machiavelli, Nikolai Gogol, Maxim Gorky, Washington Irving, Edgar Allan Poe, Guy de Maupassant ...
    Tales of the Devil, edited by Maximilian J. Rudwin, is a captivating collection of stories that explore the timeless and multifaceted figure of the Devil in literature. Originally published in 1921 under the title Devil Stories: An Anthology, this masterful work brings together tales from some of the greatest literary minds, spanning centuries and cultures to examine themes of temptation, ambition ... Read more

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  • A Very Russian Christmas

    The Greatest Russian Holiday Stories of All Time

    by Mikhail Zoshchenko, Anton Chekhov, Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Lev Tolstoy, Vladimir Korolenko, Klaudia Lukashevich, Maxim Gorky, Teffi ...
    Series series Very Christmas
    A collection of short Christmas stories by some of Russia's greatest nineteenth and twentieth century authors—several appearing in English for the first time.Running the gamut from sweet and reverent to twisted and uproarious, this collection offers a holiday feast of Russian fiction. Dostoevsky brings stories of poverty and tragedy; Tolstoy inspires with his fable-like tales; Chekhov's ... Read more

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  • My Childhood

    by Maxim Gorky ...
    Translated by Ronald Wilks ...
    Series series Penguin Modern Classics
    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-old Gorky was taken to live with his grandfather, a polecat-faced tyrant who would regularly beat him unconscious, and with his grandmother, a tender ... Read more

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  • Summerfolk

    Full Text and Introduction

    by Maxim Gorky ...
    Translated by Stephen Mulrine ...
    Series Book 0 - Drama Classics
    Drama Classics: The World's Great Plays at a Great Little PriceMaxim Gorky's magnificent response to Chekhov's The Cherry Orchard, written in 1904, the year Chekhov died.Summerfolk is a play about the Russian bourgeois social class and the changes occurring around them in the middle of the first decade of the twentieth century. It is set in a world of 'false hopes and unfulfilled promises', where ... Read more

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  • 100 Eternal Masterpieces of Literature - volume 2

    by Oscar Wilde, Jonathan Swift, Robert Louis Stevenson, Upton Sinclair, Walter Scott, William Somerset Maugham, George Sand, Mary Shelley, Jack London, Rabindranath Tagore, Stendhal0, Mark Twain1, Mark Twain2, James Joyce3, H. G. Wells4, Jules Verne5, Leo Tolstoy6, Bram Stoker7, Edgar Allan Poe8, Herman Melville9, Marcel Proust0, H. P. Lovecraft1, Thomas Mann2, D. H. Lawrence3, Rudyard Kipling4, Grant Allen5, Lucius Apuleius6, Marcus Aurelius7, Jane Austen8, L. Frank Baum9, Dale Carnegie0, Margaret Cavendish1, G.K. Chesterton2, John Cleland3, Wilkie Collins4, Daniel Defoe5, Charles Dickens6, Arthur Conan Doyle7, Alexandre Dumas8, Victor Hugo9, Vatsyayana0, Ryūnosuke Akutagawa1, Horatio Alger Jr2, Susan Coolidge3, Benjamin Disraeli4, Elizabeth Gaskell5, George Gissing6, Hollis Godfrey7, Nikolai Gogol8, Maxim Gorky9, Henry Rider Haggard0, Pieter Harting1, O. Henry2, Arthur Morrison3 ...
    This 2nd volume of contains the following 50 works, arranged alphabetically by authors' last names:Jerome, Jerome K.: Three Men in a BoatJoyce, James: A Portrait of the Artist as a Young ManJoyce, James: UlyssesKingsley, Charles: The Water-BabiesKipling, Rudyard: KimLa Fayette, Madame de: The Princess of ClèvesLaclos, Pierre Choderlos de: Dangerous LiaisonsLawrence, D. H.: Sons and LoversLawrence, ... Read more

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  • Mother ebook

    by Maxim Gorky, GP Editors ...
    Mother is the immortal classic of Maxim Gorky, one of the world's best-loved writers. It is the story of the radicalization of an uneducated woman. From her dull peasant existence into active participation in her people's struggle for justice. Through her work she frees herself from the cowed state into which she has been beaten and her simple motherly concern for her son becomes a motherly ... Read more

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