Twenty-Six And One and Other Stories

Twenty-Six And One and Other Stories

Maxim Gorky

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Repro India Limited
Año de edición:
2025
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Ficción moderna y contemporánea
ISBN:
9789355461957
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A collection of short stories by one of the most eminent Russian author, Maxim Gorky, Born as Alexei Maximovich Peshkov, this great man was a Russian writer and political activist. He was nominated five times for the Nobel Prize in Literature. Gorky’s most famous works are his early short stories, written in the 1890s; plays The Philistines (1901), The Lower Depths (1902) and Children of the Sun (1905); a poem, 'The Song of the Stormy Petrel' (1901); his autobiographical trilogy, My Childhood, In the World, My Universities (1913-1923); and a novel, Mother (1906); and post-revolutionary works such as the novels The Artamonov Business (1925) and The Life of Klim Samgin (1925-1936), the latter is considered Gorky’s masterpiece and has sometimes been viewed by critics as a modernist work. He had associations with fellow Russian writers Leo Tolstoy and Anton Chekhov, both mentioned by Gorky in his memoirs.

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