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The Collected Short Stories of Maxim Gorky Paperback - 1988
by Gorky, Maxim
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Maxim Gorky continues to be regarded as the greatest literary representative of revolutionary Russia. Born of the people, and having experienced in his own person their sufferings and their misery, he was enabled by his extraordinary genius to voice their grievances and their aspirations for a better life as no academic could. This collection represents the very best of Gorky's genius. **Lightning Print On Demand Title
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- Title The Collected Short Stories of Maxim Gorky
- Author Gorky, Maxim
- Binding Paperback
- Condition Used - Fine
- Pages 424
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher Kensington Publishing Corporation, US
- Date 1988-06-19
- Features Table of Contents
- Bookseller's Inventory # 3477-229
- ISBN 9780806510750 / 0806510757
- Weight 1.38 lbs (0.63 kg)
- Dimensions 9.04 x 6 x 1.08 in (22.96 x 15.24 x 2.74 cm)
- Library of Congress subjects Soviet Union - Social life and customs -, Soviet Union - Social life and customs
- Library of Congress Catalog Number 88160299
- Dewey Decimal Code FIC
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His international fame rests on a tremendous literary output, including the powerful play "The Lower Depths", the monumental novel of the 1905 Russian Revolution, "Mother", his vital Autobiography and, of course, his short stories. This edition of "The Collected Short Stories of Maxim Gorky" includes his benchmark masterpieces "Creatures That Once Were Men" and "Twenty-Six Men and a Girl" as well as "Chelkash and My Fellow-Traveller" among many others. The collection represents the very best of Gorky's genius.
For this edition the renowned scholar and author Frederic Ewen has written a penetrating new introduction evaluating Gorky's place in the world's literary pantheon.