Twenty-six and One and Other Stories - Maxim Gorky - Books - CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platf - 9781475017458 - March 10, 2012
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Twenty-six and One and Other Stories

Maxim Gorky

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Twenty-six and One and Other Stories

Russian literature, which for half a century has abounded in happy surprises, has again made manifest its wonderful power of innovation. A tramp, Maxime Gorky, lacking in all systematic training, has suddenly forced his way into its sacred domain, and brought thither the fresh spontaneity of his thoughts and character. Nothing as individual or as new has been produced since the first novels of Tolstoy. His work owes nothing to its predecessors; it stands apart and alone. It, therefore, obtains more than an artistic success, it causes a real revolution. Gorky was born of humble people, at Nizhni-Novgorod, in 1868 or 1869,?he does not know which?and was early left an orphan. He was apprenticed to a shoemaker, but ran away, a sedentary life not being to his taste. He left an engraver's in the same manner, and then went to work with a painter of ikoni, or holy pictures. He is next found to be a cook's boy, then an assistant to a gardener. He tried life in these diverse ways, and not one of them pleased him. Until his fifteenth year, he had only had the time to learn to read a little; his grandfather taught him to read a prayer-book in the old Slav dialect. He retained from his first studies only a distaste for anything printed until the time when, cook's boy on board a steam-boat, he was initiated by the chief cook into more attractive reading matter.

Media Books     Paperback Book   (Book with soft cover and glued back)
Released March 10, 2012
ISBN13 9781475017458
Publishers CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platf
Pages 118
Dimensions 150 × 6 × 226 mm   ·   167 g
Language English  

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