Books with author Maxim Gorky

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Alexei Maximovich Peshkov was a Russian and Soviet writer, a founder of the socialist realism literary method and a political activist. He was also a five-time nominee for the Nobel Prize in Literature. Around fifteen years before success as a writer, he frequently changed jobs and roamed across the Russian Empire; these experiences would later influence his writing. Gorky's most famous works were The Lower Depths (1902), Twenty-six Men and a Girl, The Song of the Stormy Petrel, The Mother, Summerfolk and Children of the Sun. He had an association with fellow Russian writers Leo Tolstoy and Anton Chekhov; Gorky would later write his memoirs on both of them.

Yevsey Klimkov was four years old, his father was shot dead by the forester; and when he was seven years old, his mother died. She died suddenly in the field at harvest time. And so strange was this that Yevsey was not even frightened by the sight of her dead body. Uncle Piotr, a blacksmith, put his hand on the boys head, and said: What are we going to do now ? Yevsey took a sidelong glance at the corner where his mother lay upon a bench, and answered in a low voice: I dont know. The blacksmith wiped the sweat from his face with his shirtsleeve, and after a long silence gently shoved his nephew aside. You're going to live with me, he said. We'll send you to school, I suppose, so that you won't be in our way. Ah, you old man! From that day the boy was called Old Man. About the Publisher Forgotten Books is a publisher of historical writings, such as: Philosophy, Classics, Science, Religion, History, Folklore and Mythology. Forgotten Books' Classic Reprint Series utilizes the latest technology to regenerate facsimiles of historically important writings. Careful attention has been made to accurately preserve the original format of each page whilst digitally enhancing the aged text. Read books online for free at www.forgottenbooks.org

The second volume of Gorky's memoirs, first published in 1916. It was preceded by "Childhood" (1913) and followed by "My University Years" (1922). Gorky reached the apogee of his creative powers in his autobiographical trilogy, "Childhood," "In the World" and "My University Years," a magnificent panorama of Russian lower and lower middle-class life. In vignette after vignette from his own life, Gorky is at his best, as he deftly shifts the center of attention from himself to the situation and people he faces.

Yevsey endeavored to escape observation even in his uncle's home; but here it was difficult. He had to dine and sup in the company of the whole family; and when he sat at the table; Yakov; the uncle's youngest son; a lusty; red-faced youngster; tried every trick to tease him or make him laugh. He made faces; stuck out his tongue; kicked Yevsey's legs under the table; and pinched him. He never succeeded; however; in making the Old Man laugh; though he did succeed in producing quite the opposite result; for often Yevsey would start with pain; his yellow face would turn grey; his eyes open wide; and his spoon tremble in his hand.