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Maxim Gorky

Born

in Nizhny Novgorod, Russian Empire

March 28, 1868

Died

June 18, 1936

Genre

Literature & Fiction, Classics

Influences

Anton Chekhov, Nikolai Pomyalovsky, Pushkin, Knut Hamsun, August Strin ...more

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Russian writer Aleksei Maksimovich Peshkov (Russian: Алексей Максимович Пешков) supported the Bolshevik revolution of 1917 and helped to develop socialist realism as the officially accepted literary aesthetic; his works include The Life of Klim Samgin (1927-1936), an unfinished cycle of novels.

This Soviet author founded the socialist realism literary method and a political activist. People also nominated him five times for the Nobel Prize in literature. From 1906 to 1913 and from 1921 to 1929, he lived abroad, mostly in Capri, Italy; after his return to the Soviet Union, he accepted the cultural policies of the time. ...more

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Average rating: 3.89 · 60,441 ratings · 5,147 reviews · 1,756 distinct works • Similar authors

	Mother 3.97 avg rating — 19,940 ratings — published 1906 — 64 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	My Childhood by Maxim Gorky, Ronald Wilks (Translator) 4.10 avg rating — 9,491 ratings — published 1913 — 16 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Lower Depths 3.77 avg rating — 5,521 ratings — published 1902 — 26 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	My Universities 3.87 avg rating — 2,961 ratings — published 1923	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	My Apprenticeship 4.09 avg rating — 2,152 ratings — published 1916 — 176 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Старуха Изергиль by Maxim Gorky, Максим Горький 3.90 avg rating — 2,173 ratings — published 1894 — 12 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Collected Short Stories of Maxim Gorky (Volume 0) 3.97 avg rating — 1,127 ratings — published 1909 — 46 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Life of a Useless Man 3.64 avg rating — 859 ratings — published 1907 — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Artamonov Business 3.74 avg rating — 637 ratings — published 1925 — 72 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	اعتراف أين الله by Maxim Gorky, مكسيم غوركي, فيروز نيوف (Translator) 3.76 avg rating — 589 ratings — published 1908 — 49 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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Series by Maxim Gorky

Autobiography (3 books)
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Ronald Wilks (Introduction)

4.05 avg rating — 14,626 ratings

Seçme Öyküler (4 books)
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Ayşe Hacıhasanoğlu (Translator)

3.77 avg rating — 13 ratings

Quotes by Maxim Gorky (?)

“Happiness always looks small while you hold it in your hands, but let it go, and you learn at once how big and precious it is.”
― Maxim Gorky, The Lower Depths and Other Plays

2356 likes

“Keep reading books, but remember that a book’s only a book, and you should learn to think for yourself.”
― Maxim Gorky

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“When everything is easy one quickly gets stupid.”
― Maxim Gorky

tags: 1926

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Poems of Akhmatova. Избранные стихи by Anna Akhmatova

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Children of the Sun by Maxim Gorky

4 votes, 16.0%

Иван Васильевич/Ivan Vasiljevič by Mikhail Bulgakov

4 votes, 16.0%

The Gypsies & Other Narrative Poems by Alexander Pushkin

4 votes, 16.0%

The Song of Igor's Campaign by Vladimir Nabokov

4 votes, 16.0%

Maria in The Complete Works of Isaac Babel by Isaac Babel

3 votes, 12.0%

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