My Childhood by Maxim Gorky

My Childhood

Autobiography #1

Maxim Gorky with Ronald Wilks (Translator)

240 pages first pub 1913 (editions)

fiction autobiography reflective slow-paced
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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. After his father, a paperhanger and upholsterer, died of cholera, five-year...

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