«Рассказы и повести» — сборник таких произведений Максима Горького (наст. имя Алексей Максимович Пешков), как рассказы «Старуха Изергиль», «Макар Чудра», «Челкаш», «Весенние мелодии», поэм в прозе «Песня о соколе» и «Песня о буревестнике», повести «Детство».
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.