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240 pages • first pub 1913 (editions)
ISBN/UID: 9780140182859
Format: Paperback
Language: English
Publisher: Penguin Books
Publication date: 01 November 1991
Description
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...
Community Reviews Summary of 195 reviews
Moods
emotional 85%
dark 42%
reflective 42%
adventurous 28%
informative 28%
tense 28%
challenging 14%
Pace
slow 42%
Average rating
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Graphic
Domestic abuse, Death, Violence
240 pages • first pub 1913 (editions)
ISBN/UID: 9780140182859
Format: Paperback
Language: English
Publisher: Penguin Books
Publication date: 01 November 1991
Description
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...
Community Reviews Summary of 195 reviews
Moods
emotional 85%
dark 42%
reflective 42%
adventurous 28%
informative 28%
tense 28%
challenging 14%
Pace
slow 42%
Average rating
Content Warnings
Submitted by users as part of their reviews
Graphic
Domestic abuse, Death, Violence