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12%OFFMaksim Gorky - Childhood - 9781566638401 - V9781566638401
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Childhood

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Description for Childhood Hardcover. Translator(s): Hettlinger, Graham. Num Pages: 232 pages. BIC Classification: JNH. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 238 x 161 x 22. Weight in Grams: 472.
Aleksey Peshkov overcame indigence, violence, and suicidal despair to become Maksim Gorky, one of the most widely read and influential writers of the twentieth century. Childhood, the first book in Gorky's acclaimed autobiographical trilogy, depicts his early years, when after his father's death he was taken to live in the home of his maternal grandfather, a violent and vindictive man who both provided the child with a rudimentary education and subjected him to savage beatings. With remarkable freshness and candor, Gorky immerses his reader in a young child's world, recreating in dynamic prose a boy's bewilderment at ... Read more

Product Details

Format
Hardback
Publication date
2011
Publisher
Ivan R Dee, Inc United States
Number of pages
232
Condition
New
Number of Pages
232
Place of Publication
Chicago, United States
ISBN
9781566638401
SKU
V9781566638401
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About Maksim Gorky
Maksim Gorky (1868-1936) became one of the most trenchant observers of both the promises and moral dangers of revolution in Russia. He was forced to flee the country twice—once in 1906, as a prominent opponent of the tsarist regime, and again in 1921, as a vocal critic of the Bolshevik government. He began a series of extended visits to the ... Read more

Reviews for Childhood
A new, vigorous translation of the first installment of Gorky’s three-volume autobiography, first published in 1914. Hettlinger, who directs international study programs at Georgetown University and translated The Collected Stories of Ivan Bunin (2007), begins with a swift summary of Gorky’s life (1868–1936), from his impoverished childhood ('Dickensian' is far too feeble a term) to his disturbing late-life pro-Soviet positions. ... Read more

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