Shorter Fiction of Maxim Gorky (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9789355462428)

A collection of short fiction by one of the most eminent Russian author, Maxim Gorky. Born as Alexei Maximovich Peshkov, this great man was a Russian writer and political activist. He was nominated five times for the Nobel Prize in Literature. Gorky's most famous works are his early short stories, written in the 1890s; plays The Philistines (1901), The Lower Depths (1902) and Children of the Sun (1905); a poem, "The Song of the Stormy Petrel" (1901); his autobiographical trilogy, My Childhood, In the World, My Universities (1913-1923); and a novel, Mother (1906); and post-revolutionary works such as the novels The Artamonov Business (1925) and The Life of Klim Samgin (1925-1936), the latter is considered Gorky's masterpiece and has sometimes been viewed by critics as a modernist work. He had associations with fellow Russian writers Leo Tolstoy and Anton Chekhov, both mentioned by Gorky in his memoirs.

Author: Maxim Gorky
ISBN-10: 9355462425
ISBN-13: 9789355462428
Publisher: Pharos Books Private Limited
Language: English
Published: 09/01/2022
Pages: 618
Format: Paperback
Weight: 1.71lbs
Size: 8.50h x 5.50w x 1.37d