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  <title><![CDATA[My Childhood / دوران کودکی (Penguin Twentieth-Century Classics)]]></title>
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  <default_description>1926. 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 closely associated with the tumultuous revolutionary period of his own country. My Childhood, the first volume of Gorky's autobiographical trilogy, was in part an act of exorcism. It describes a life begun in the raw, remembered with extraordinary charm and poignancy and without bitterness. Of all Gorky's books this is the one that made him the father of Russian literature. See other titles by this author available from Kessinger Publishing.</default_description>
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  <original_publication_year type="integer">1966</original_publication_year>
  <original_title>My Childhood / &#1583;&#1608;&#1585;&#1575;&#1606; &#1705;&#1608;&#1583;&#1705;&#1740; (Penguin Twentieth-Century Classics)</original_title>
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      <name><![CDATA[Maxim Gorky]]></name>
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  <read_at>Wed Aug 01 00:00:00 -0700 2007</read_at>
  <date_added>Mon Aug 27 06:10:42 -0700 2007</date_added>
  <date_updated>Mon Aug 27 06:17:25 -0700 2007</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[I guess 19th c Russia is not the only place 'good' parents believed in beating their wives and children. Neither can we say it no longer happens anywhere today.<br/><br/>Gorky gives a vivid account of some outstanding, nearly unbelievable incidents of his young years.  Talk about dysfunctional fam...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/5162930">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <name><![CDATA[Liz]]></name>
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  <recommended_for><![CDATA[people who like books that take long to get through.]]></recommended_for>
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  <read_at>Sun Feb 01 00:00:00 -0800 2009</read_at>
  <date_added>Mon Jan 26 09:44:17 -0800 2009</date_added>
  <date_updated>Sun Feb 01 08:08:31 -0800 2009</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[Gorky articles were better. i was actually really disappointed. i think what i liked in his article about the nizhny novgorod fair was the surreal quality of wonder he got across, but with his memoir it's like he's too poetically descriptive in a way that robs it of any immediacy, or any feel that i...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/44399329">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="76481524">
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  <read_at>Sun Jun 01 00:00:00 -0700 2008</read_at>
  <date_added>Mon Nov 02 09:24:02 -0800 2009</date_added>
  <date_updated>Mon Nov 02 09:28:15 -0800 2009</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[A fascinating and stylistically unique autobiography set mostly in 1800s rural farm Russia.  Lucidly told, poetically written and full of well developed characterizations.  A fascinating read about the childhood of one of Russia's most fascinating writers set in a time and place one seldoms hears mu...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/76481524">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="71695169">
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  <read_at>Mon Sep 21 00:00:00 -0700 2009</read_at>
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  <date_updated>Mon Sep 21 09:02:19 -0700 2009</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[Incredible. ]]></body>
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    <review id="4628974">
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    <name><![CDATA[علی]]></name>
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  <date_added>Thu Aug 16 05:51:53 -0700 2007</date_added>
  <date_updated>Thu Aug 16 05:56:45 -0700 2007</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[It's gone a long time since Gorki was charming. Then on I had no idea about Social Realism or any other isms of litereature. As he was one of those few I started my reading with, I still feel kind of respect and loyality to him.<br/>دوران کودکی را به ترجمه ی کشاورز در ا...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/4628974">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="27969922">
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      <rating>4</rating>
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    <body><![CDATA[I generally despise memoirs of childhood, even very good ones, and I expected this to be no exception.  But Gorky is a soulful fellow who just grows on you.  He is very likable; you can't help but root for him.  His observations of humanity are striking and leave a lasting image...  An excellent boo...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/27969922">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="97424">
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  <read_at>Wed Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 2003</read_at>
  <date_added>Sun Feb 25 13:27:59 -0800 2007</date_added>
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    <body><![CDATA[depends on the translation, but it's like no other autobiog. about this kid growing up in Russia a maybe 100 years ago. He's always suffering but finds solace in a few good souls like his grandmother, and birds, stories. it took me to the place. my favorite!]]></body>
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    <review id="2203102">
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    <name><![CDATA[Erin]]></name>
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  <read_at>Sun Oct 01 00:00:00 -0700 2006</read_at>
  <date_added>Thu Jun 21 06:58:05 -0700 2007</date_added>
  <date_updated>Mon Jun 25 12:40:23 -0700 2007</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[LOVED!!!<br/><br/>I love what he wrote about his native people.  The raw honest truth.  I absolutely loved the ending.  Very direct &amp; real.  No fluff.]]></body>
    <url><![CDATA[http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/2203102]]></url>
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    <review id="28068568">
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  <date_added>Wed Jul 23 11:14:13 -0700 2008</date_added>
  <date_updated>Wed Jul 23 11:18:55 -0700 2008</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[Dear Reader, this is a soulful book; after reading it you can't help but love Maxim the Bitter.]]></body>
    <url><![CDATA[http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/28068568]]></url>
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    <review id="20619024">
    <user id="1027339">
    <name><![CDATA[dead letter office]]></name>
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    <body><![CDATA[as far as i know, this is the only book i've read by a soviet author. it's a great childhood memoir.]]></body>
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    <review id="26508955">
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    <name><![CDATA[Gabriela]]></name>
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  <read_at>Mon Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 1996</read_at>
  <date_added>Mon Jul 07 03:33:17 -0700 2008</date_added>
  <date_updated>Mon Jul 07 03:42:42 -0700 2008</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[I was thoroughly impressed by this book, even though I read it at a quite young age. ]]></body>
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    <review id="2761010">
    <user id="154634">
    <name><![CDATA[Gholamhossein]]></name>
    <location><![CDATA[Iran, Islamic Republic of]]></location>        
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  <read_at>Sun Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 1967</read_at>
  <date_added>Fri Jul 06 01:31:23 -0700 2007</date_added>
  <date_updated>Fri Jul 06 01:31:23 -0700 2007</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[The books of Gurkey shows life way and social unjustic<br/> ]]></body>
    <url><![CDATA[http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/2761010]]></url>
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    <review id="20356801">
    <user id="934291">
    <name><![CDATA[Michelle]]></name>
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  <date_added>Wed Apr 16 23:30:17 -0700 2008</date_added>
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    <body><![CDATA[Very depressing but isn't most Russian lit?]]></body>
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    <review id="30382565">
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    <body><![CDATA[more recollections on childhood]]></body>
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    <review id="69198851">
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    <body><![CDATA[nice]]></body>
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