My Childhood

My Childhood
Maxim Gorky
“With a few words M. Gorky can draw a portrait or sketch an incident so it lives before the reader, and though the portrait is often unpleasant and the incident one of violence, the skill of the artist cannot be denied.” The Spectator
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About the Author

Alexei Maximovich Peshkov, more commonly known as Maxim Gorky, was a Russian and Soviet author, famous for creating the socialist realism literary method and as an early supporter of the Soviet Union. He was a five-time nominee for the Nobel Prize in Literature and a vicious critic of the Tsarist Russian Empire. My Childhood first published in English in 1915 was the first part in his autobiography trilogy. Later in life he became critical of Stalinist methods and died in 1936, some suggest he was murdered.

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