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  • The Lower Depths

    by Maxim Gorky ...
    The Lower Depths portrays a hideous and filthy lodging house, where gather such social derelicts as a thief, a gambler, an ex-artist, an ex-aristocrat, and a prostitute.All of them had at one time an ambition, a goal, but because of their lack of will and the injustice and cruelty of the world, they were forced into the depths and cast back whenever they attempted to rise.No stronger indictment ... Read more

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  • The Spy

    by Maxim Gorky ...
    Series Book 36 - Russian Literature Classics
    This book was begun by Maxim Gorky in 1907, less than two years after the unsuccessful armed rebellion on Bloody Sunday, with which he had been closely involved. Frail, battered and orphaned, Yevsey Kimkov creeps through the undergrowth of life; his intelligence remains observant, but his will is cowed, and his is easily coerced into spying for the military in support of the Tsar. He makes some ... Read more

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  • The Outcasts and Other Stories

    Restored Classics to Go Edition

    by Maxim Gorky ...
    Series series
    In addition to The Outcasts, this book includes Gorky's stories Waiting for the Ferry and The Affair of the Clasps. Maxim Gorky (1868-1936) was one of the greatest Russian writers. He inherited the best traditions of 19th century classical Russian literat This edition has been fully restored with modern typesetting, custom cover design. ... Read more

    $3.99 CAD

  • Creatures that Once Were Men and Other Stories

    by Maxim Gorky ...
    Collection of stories, including Creatures that Once Were Men, Twenty-Six Men and a Girl, Chelkash, My Fellow-Traveler, and On a Raft. According to Wikipedia: "Aleksey Maksimovich Peshkov ( 1868 ?- 1936), better known as Maxim Gorky, was a Soviet/Russian 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, ... Read more

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  • Three Men

    Restored Classics to Go Edition

    by Maxim Gorky ...
    Series series
    (Excerpt): "There are many solitary graves amid the woods of Kerschentz; within them moulder the bones of old men, men of an ancient piety, and of one of these old men, Antipa, this tale is told in the villages of Kerschentz." This edition has been fully restored with modern typesetting, custom cover design. ... Read more

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  • Creatures That Once Were Men

    by Maxim Gorky ...
    First published in 1918, "Creatures That Once Were Men" is a collection of short stories by the popular and influential Russian author Maxim Gorky, a founder of the socialist realism literary method and arguably the greatest Russian literary figure of the 20th century.Gorky wrote stories, plays, memoirs and novels which touched the imagination of the Russian people, and was the first Russian ... Read more

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  • My Childhood

    by Maxim Gorky ...
    Out of the darkest depths of life, where vice and crime and misery abound, comes the Byron of the twentieth century, the poet of the vagabond and the proletariat, Maxim Gorky. Not like the beggar, humbly imploring for a crust in the name of the Lord, nor like the jeweller displaying his precious stones to dazzle and tempt the eye, he comes to the world — nay, in accents of Tyrtaeus this commoner ... Read more

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  • The Spy

    This is the story of a man, that never found the courage to face his fears. Suffering from tormenting thoughts, but also by an invincible cowardice, lives his life as a spectator, letting himself being dragged by events, which lead him to end up as a spy, an informer for the Czar... ... Read more

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  • Mother

    by Maxim Gorky ...
    In his novel, Gorky portrays the life of a woman who works in a Russian factory doing hard manual labour and combating poverty and hunger, among other hardships. Pelageya Nilovna Vlasova is the real protagonist; her husband, a heavy drunkard, physically assaults her and leaves all the responsibility for raising their son, Pavel Vlasov, to her, but unexpectedly dies. Pavel noticeably begins to ... Read more

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  • The Mother

    by Maxim Gorky ...
    Translated by Hugh Aplin ...
    A book of the utmost importance"", in the words of Lenin, and a landmark in Russian literature, The Mother - here presented in a brilliant new version by Hugh Aplin, the first English translation in almost a century - will enchant modern readers both for its historical significance and its intrinsic value as a work of art. Inspired by real events and centring on the figure of Pelageya Vlasova - ... Read more

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  • The Collected Works of Maxim Gorky

    PergamonMedia

    by Maxim Gorky ...
    Series series
    This comprehensive eBook presents significant works of this famous and brilliant writer in one ebook - easy-to-read and easy-to-navigate: • One Autumn Night • Her Lovers • Mother • Twenty-six and One and Other Stories • Creatures That Once Were Men • The Man Who Was Afraid • Reminiscences • The Shield • Creatures That Once Were Men • Maxim GorkiHans Ostwald • Po Rusi • Twenty-Six and One • ... Read more

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  • Maxim Gorky’s Works

    by Maxim Gorky ...
    ABOUT sixty years ago, when fortunes of millions had been made on the Volga with fairy-tale rapidity, Ignat Gordyeeff, a young fellow, was working as water-pumper on one of the barges of the wealthy merchant Zayev.Built like a giant, handsome and not at all stupid, he was one of those people whom luck always follows everywhere—not because they are gifted and industrious, but rather because, having ... Read more

    $1.26 CAD