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    One Autumn Night

    From their pens to your ears, genius in every story

    by Maxim Gorky ...
    Narrated by David Shaw-Parker ...

    Unabridged

    26 min

    Alexei Maximovich Peshkov was born on 28th March 1868, in Nizhny Novgorod, Russia.Better known as Maxim Gorky he was orphaned at 11 and ran away from home at 12. At 19 he had already attempted suicide and thereafter travelled, by foot, across the Russian Empire for 5 years.His first book ‘Essays & Stories’ in 1898 was a sensation and so began a long career as an author of short stories, novels and ... Read more

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  • Childhood

    With a New Critical Introduction

    by Gorky ...
    The book begins with a corpse on a floor, described by a small boy who does not yet know what he is looking at. His father lies dressed in white, copper coins on his eyes. His mother kneels in a red skirt, combing back the dead man's hair "with the black comb I had used as a saw to cut through the rind of watermelons".The comb tells you what kind of writer this is. A boy of four does not register ... Read more

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  • Reminiscences of Leo Nicolayevitch Tolstoi

    by Maksim Gorky ...
    In the book, Gorky vividly recalls his conversations with Tolstoy, reflecting on Tolstoy’s thoughts on religion, morality, and the social issues of the time. Tolstoy's passionate advocacy for nonviolence, simplicity in living, and spiritual awakening profoundly impressed Gorky, yet he also observed Tolstoy’s inner struggles, particularly his tensions with his aristocratic background and his own ... Read more

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  • Poems of Maxim Gorky

    by Maxim Gorky ...
    Gorky was the first writer to describe Russia from inside the world of workers, wanderers, and unfortunates. 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) ... Read more

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  • A Confession

    by Maxim Gorky ...
    A Confession is a 1908 short novel by Maxim Gorky. About a pilgrim, the novel highlights the "God-building" movement that arose in the Russian Empire in the late 19th century. The Confession expresses Gorky's belief in humanity when strong individuals are connected to each other. It also reflects Gorky's disgust with injustice, hypocrisy, and conditions that degrade human dignity, and his faith in ... Read more

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  • My Childhood

    by Maxim Gorky ...
    Gorky's childhood memories brush a very outspoken picture of `that close-knit, suffocating little world of pain and suffering, where the Russian man of the street used to live.' Despite this, Gorky considers his childhood as `a beehive to which various single obscure people brought the honey of their knowledge and thoughts on life; often their honey was dirty and bitter, but every scrap of ... Read more

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  • Shorter Fiction of Maxim Gorky

    by Maxim Gorky ...
    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 ... Read more

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  • The Mother

    by Maxim Gorky ...
    Mother is a novel written by Maxim Gorky in 1906 about revolutionary factory workers. 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, ... Read more

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  • Short Stories of Maxim Gorky

    by Maxim Gorky ...
    A collection of short stories 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 ... Read more

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  • The Spy | Timeless Classics

    by Maxim Gorky ...
    'In The Spy, Maxim Gorky weaves a tale of intrigue and betrayal set against the backdrop of a turbulent society. The story follows the life of an enigmatic spy whose loyalties are constantly tested as he navigates a world filled with danger and deception. Torn between allegiance to his country and his deepening connections with those he must outwit, he becomes embroiled in a web of espionage that ... Read more

    $2.99 USD

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    My Childhood

    by Maxim Gorky ...
    Narrated by Nicholas Boulton ...

    Unabridged

    8 hours 31 min

    Published in 1913, My Childhood is the first in an autobiographical trilogy by the Russian writer and five-time Nobel Prize-nominee Maxim Gorky. Painfully moving in places, the book tells of the experiences of a young boy who goes to live with his grandparents following the death of his father. Gorky’s depiction of 19th-century Russia through the eyes of his younger self is remarkable. As he ... Read more

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  • One autumn night

    by Maxim Gorky ...
    Alexei Maximovich Peshkov (1868 – 1936), primarily known as Maxim Gorky 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. Prior to his renown as an author, he frequently changed jobs and roamed across the Russian Empire; these experiences would later influence his writing ... Read more

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