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Selected Short Stories
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Maxim Gorky
Born "Aleksey Maksimovich Peshkov" on March 16, 1868, in Nizhny Novgorod, Russia -- later renamed in his honor - Maxim Gorky would learn early the harsh lessons of life. He spent his early childhood in Astrakhan where his father worked as a shipping agent, but when the boy was only five years old, his father died, and he was sent to live with his maternal grandparents. Thi...more
Paperback, 412 pages
Published
January 28th 2001
by University Press of the Pacific
(first published May 1969)
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This contains the best short story I've ever read. "Twenty-Six Men and One Girl". Gorky's masterpiece is heartbreaking, and I love to return to it again and again. Gorky's stories will make you sad, (his last name, a pen name, means bitter), but you won't be able to look away.
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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 po...more
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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 po...more
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