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21%OFFMaxim Gorky - My Childhood - 9780140182859 - V9780140182859
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My Childhood

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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-old Gorky was taken to live with his grandfather, a polecat-faced tyrant who would regularly beat him unconscious, and with his grandmother, a tender mountain of a woman and a wonderful storyteller, who would kneel beside their bed (with Gorky inside it pretending to be asleep) and give God her views on the day's happenings, down to the last fascinating ... Read more

Product Details

Publisher
Penguin Classics
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1991
Series
Penguin Modern Classics
Condition
New
Number of Pages
240
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780140182859
SKU
V9780140182859
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About Maxim Gorky
Maxim Gorky was born in 1868 in Nizhny Novgorod. After a grim childhood and some years of wandering he began to write stories and by his thirties had become famous both for fiction and plays. He became involved in revolutionary activity against the tsarist regime in Russia and had a confused, difficult relationship with the Soviet dictatorship, partly ... Read more

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