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Maxim Gorky

Born

in Nizhny Novgorod, Russian Empire, Russian Federation

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 writerAleksei 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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Maxim Gorky’s books

Average rating: 3.89 · 52,890 ratings · 4,175 reviews ·1,322 distinct works •Similar authors

	Mother 3.97 avg rating — 17,348 ratings — published 1906 — 10 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) 4.08 avg rating — 8,181 ratings — published 1913 — 303 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 3.76 avg rating — 3,583 ratings — published 1902 — 178 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 3.88 avg rating — 2,594 ratings — published 1923 — 102 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 Apprenticeship 4.08 avg rating — 1,854 ratings — published 1916 — 171 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 3.91 avg rating — 1,888 ratings — published 1894 — 21 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
	На дне by Maxim Gorky, Maxim Gorky 3.79 avg rating — 1,312 ratings — published 1902 — 3 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 3.96 avg rating — 1,071 ratings — published 1909 — 55 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 — 717 ratings — published 1907 — 105 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 — 534 ratings — published 1925 — 28 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)
by

Maxim Gorky,

Ronald Wilks(Introduction)

4.04 avg rating — 12,783 ratings

Seçme Öyküler (4 books)
by

Maxim Gorky,

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

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

390 likes

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

tags: 1926

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