Maxim Gorky

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born

January 01, 1868 in Nizhny Novgorod, Russian Federation

died

January 01, 1936

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Aleksey Maximovich Peshkov (Russian: Алексе́й Макси́мович Пешков; better known as Maxim Gorky (Russian: Макси́м Го́рький, IPA: [mɐˈksʲim ˈɡorʲkʲɪj]), was a Russian/Soviet author, a founder of the socialist realism literary method and a political activist.

From 1906 to 1913 and from 1921 to 1929 he lived abroad, mostly in Capri, Italy; after his return to the Soviet Union he accepted the cultural policies of the time.

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Average rating: 3.69 · 4,408 ratings · 261 reviews · 184 distinct works

	Mother 3.68 avg rating — 1,867 ratings — published 1906 — 63 editions	My rating:
	My Childhood by Maxim Gorky, Ronald Wilks (Translator) 3.80 avg rating — 731 ratings — published 1914 — 25 editions	My rating:
	The Lower Depths by Maxim Gorky, Jenny Covan (Translator) 3.64 avg rating — 310 ratings — published 1902 — 16 editions	My rating:
	My Universities by Maxim Gorky, Ronald Wilks (Introduction) 3.68 avg rating — 225 ratings — published 1950 — 10 editions	My rating:
	The Collected Short Stories of Maxim Gorky by Maxim Gorky, Avrahm Yarmolinsky (Editor), Baroness Moura Budberg (Editor) 3.82 avg rating — 179 ratings — published 1988 — 2 editions	My rating:
	My Apprenticeship by Maxim Gorky, Margaret Wettlin 3.86 avg rating — 101 ratings — published 1974 — 4 editions	My rating:
	Chelkash and Other Stories by Maxim Gorky, J. Fineberg (Translator), B. Isaacs (Translator) 3.47 avg rating — 85 ratings — published 1965 — 3 editions	My rating:
	Life of a Useless Man 3.82 avg rating — 50 ratings — 3 editions	My rating:
	На дне 4.05 avg rating — 38 ratings — published 2006 — 2 editions	My rating:
	در جستجوی نان by Maxim Gorky, احمد صادق (ترجمه) 3.27 avg rating — 44 ratings — published 1923	My rating:

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“Happiness always looks small while you hold it in your hands, but let it go, and you learn at once how big and precious it is.”
― Maxim Gorky, The Lower Depths and Other Plays

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“Keep reading books, but remember that a book’s only a book, and you should learn to think for yourself.”
― Maxim Gorky

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“When everything is easy one quickly gets stupid.”
― Maxim Gorky

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