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Coloured by poverty and horrifying brutality, Gorky's childhood equipped him to understand - in a way denied to a Tolstoy or a Turgenev - the life of the ordinary Russian. This volume of an autobiographical trilogy, was in part an act of exorcism. It describes a life begun in the ...
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Once an early supporter of the Bolsheviks, the author became disillusioned after the 1917 revolution and wrote a series of critical articles, analyses on the Russian national character, a condemnation of Bolshevik methods and a vision of the future. This is a collection of those ...
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Maxim Gorky (1868-1936) was gifted and prolific, riddled with contradictions, praised increasingly for political rather than literary reasons. This book presents an unfamiliar Gorky: a figure who, once the cliches are stripped away from him, becomes enigmatic as man, as writer, a ...
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Modern accurate and stageable translations of five of Gorky's plays
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Includes a selection of plays and non-dramatic writing by Gorky.
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This collection of four plays, written at the turn of the 20th century, chart the descent of Russia into revolution.
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In 1909 Maxim Gorky wrote Vassa Zheleznova, a savage comedy about a Russian family at war over money, entitlement and the march of progress. But Vassa Zheleznova also relates to one of the great Australian themes: how we hauled ourselves out of our working class past and set out ...
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Includes the title story, in which a thieving vagrant takes on a young apprentice; Makar Chudra, the story of an ill-fated romance; and Twenty-six Men and A Girl, in which wretched bakery workers destroy their only source of joy.
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1917. Maxim Gorky, pseudonym of Alexei Maksimovich Peshkov, Soviet novelist, playwright and essayist, who was a founder of social realism. Although known principally as a writer, he was closely associated with the tumultuous revolutionary period of his own country. The book begin ...
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1907. Maxim Gorky, pseudonym of Alexei Maksimovich Peshkov, Soviet novelist, playwright and essayist, who was a founder of social realism. Although known principally as a writer, he was closely associated with the tumultuous revolutionary period of his own country. The Mother, on ...
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