В сборник "Весь Горький" вошли произведения русского прозаика и драматурга, одного из самых известных в мире русских писателей и мыслителей М. Горького, такие как: "Отшельник", "Ошибка", "Пастух", "Паук", поэма в прозе "Двадцать шесть и одна", поэмы в прозе "Песня о соколе", "Песня о буревестнике", повести "Городок Окуров", "Детство", "В людях", цикл рассказов "По Руси", рассказ "Макар Чудра", "Челкаш", "Старуха Изергиль", роман "Жизнь Клима Самгина" и другие.
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.