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My Childhood (Penguin Modern Classics)

My Childhood (Penguin Modern Classics) Paperback - 1991

by R. Wilks

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  • Title My Childhood (Penguin Modern Classics)
  • Author R. Wilks
  • Binding Paperback
  • Edition Reprint
  • Condition Used - Very Good
  • Pages 240
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Penguin Group, Toronto, ON, Canada
  • Date November 1, 1991
  • Bookseller's Inventory # GOR001525943
  • ISBN 9780140182859 / 0140182853
  • Weight 0.39 lbs (0.18 kg)
  • Dimensions 7.8 x 5.08 x 0.51 in (19.81 x 12.90 x 1.30 cm)
  • Ages 18 to UP years
  • Grade levels 13 - UP
  • Library of Congress subjects Gorky, Maksim, Gorky, Maksim - Childhood and youth
  • Library of Congress Catalog Number 66007307
  • Dewey Decimal Code B

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IN a narrow, darkened room, my father, dressed in a white and unusually long garment, lay on the floor under the window.

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About the author

Maxim Gorky is the pen-name of Alexei Maximovich Peshkov, who was born in 1868 in the city of Nizhny-Novgorod, now renamed after him. After his father's death, he spent his childhood with his mother and grandparents in an atmosphere of hostility. He was turned out of the house when his mother died and was left to work in various jobs--in a bakery, in an ikon-maker's shop, on barges--until his unsuccessful attempt at suicide. For three years he wandered in the south like a tramp before publishing his first story, "Makar Chudra," in a Tiflis newspaper. After his return to Nizhny, he worked on another newspaper, in which many of his stories appeared; he quickly achieved fame and soon afterward his play The Lower Depths was a triumphant success at the Moscow Arts Theatre. By now active in the revolutionary movement, he was arrested in 1905 by the Tsarist government but released following a petition signed by eminent statesmen and writers. While in America in 1906, he savagely attacked American capitalism and wrote his bestselling novel, Mother. During the First World War, he was associated with the Marxist Internationalist Group, and in 1917 he founded New Life, a daily devoted to left-wing socialism, but which outspokenly attacked Kerensky and Lenin's "Communist hysteria." In 1921 he went to Italy, where he wrote My Universities, the third part of his great autobiographical trilogy: the other parts are My Childhood and My Apprenticeship. He returned to Moscow in 1928, and from then on he was a champion of the Soviet cause. In 1936 he died--allegedly poisoned by political enemies--and was given a hero's funeral in Red Square.

Ronald Wilks studied Russian language and literature at Trinity College, Cambridge, and later Russian literature at London University, where he received his PhD in 1972. He has translated The Little Demon by Sologub; My Childhood, My Apprenticeship, and My Universities by Gorky; The Golovlyov Family by Saltykov-Shchedrin; and four volumes of stories by Chekhov: The Kiss and Other Stories, The Duel and Other Stories, The Party and Other Stories, and The Fiance and Other Stories.

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