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Maxim Gorky


Born
in Nizhny Novgorod, Russian Empire
March 28, 1868

Died
June 18, 1936

Genre
Literature & Fiction, Classics

Influences
Anton Chekhov, Nikolai Pomyalovsky, Pushkin, Knut Hamsun, August Strin ...more


Russian writer Aleksei Maksimovich Peshkov (Russian: Алексей Максимович Пешков) supported the Bolshevik revolution of 1917 and helped to develop socialist realism as the officially accepted literary aesthetic; his works include The Life of Klim Samgin (1927-1936), an unfinished cycle of novels.

This Soviet author founded the socialist realism literary method and a political activist. People also nominated him five times for the Nobel Prize in literature. 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. ...more

Combine Editions

Average rating: 3.89 · 59,613 ratings · 4,994 reviews · 1,783 distinct works • Similar authors
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3.97 avg rating — 19,658 ratings — published 1906 — 6 editions
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My Childhood
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4.09 avg rating — 9,370 ratings — published 1913 — 7 editions
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The Lower Depths
3.77 avg rating — 5,449 ratings — published 1902 — 93 editions
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My Universities
3.86 avg rating — 2,917 ratings — published 1923 — 28 editions
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My Apprenticeship
4.09 avg rating — 2,122 ratings — published 1916 — 19 editions
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Старуха Изергиль
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3.90 avg rating — 2,138 ratings — published 1894 — 27 editions
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The Collected Short Stories...
3.97 avg rating — 1,124 ratings — published 1909 — 48 editions
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The Life of a Useless Man
3.64 avg rating — 850 ratings — published 1907 — 106 editions
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The Artamonov Business
3.75 avg rating — 624 ratings — published 1925 — 11 editions
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اعتراف أين الله
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3.76 avg rating — 579 ratings — published 1908 — 49 editions
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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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