Maxim Gorky
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Aleksey Maksimovich Peshkov (In Russian Алексей Максимович Пешков) (March 28, 1868 – June 18, 1936), better known as Maxim Gorky (Максим Горький), was a Soviet/Russian author, a founder of the socialist realism literary method and a political activist. 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, although he was not permitted to leave the country.
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Selected works
- Makar Chudra (Макар Чудра), short story, 1892
- Goremyka Pavel, novel, 1894
- Chelkash (Челкаш), novelette, 1895
- Malva, short story, 1897
- Sketches and Stories, stories, (three volumes) 1898-1899
- Creatures That Once Were Men, stories in English translation (1905)
- This contained an introduction by G. K. Chesterton
- Twenty-six Men and a Girl, short story, 1899
- Foma Gordeyev/The Man Who Was Afraid (Фома Гордеев), novel, 1899
- Three of Them (Трое), novel, 1900
- The Song of the Stormy Petrel (Песня о Буревестнике), poem, 1901
- Song of a Falcon (Песня о Соколе),short story, 1902
- The Mother (Мать), novel, 1907
- The Life of a Useless Man, novel, 1907
- A Confession (Исповедь), novel, 1908
- Okurov City (Городок Окуров), novel, 1908
- The Life of Matvei Kozhemyakin (Жизнь Матвея Кожемякина), novel, 1910
- Tales of Italy, stories, 1911–1913
- My Childhood (Детство), Autobiography Part I, 1913–1914
- In the World (В людях), Autobiography Part II, 1916
- Chaliapin, articles in Letopis, 1917
- Untimely Thoughts, articles, 1918
- My Recollections of Tolstoy, 1919
- My Universities (Мои университеты), Autobiography Part III, 1923
- Through Russia, stories, 1923
- The Artamonov Business (Дело Артамоновых), novel, 1927
- Life of Klim Samgin (Жизнь Клима Самгина), unfinished novel series:
- The Bystander, novel, 1927
- The Magnet, novel, 1928
- Other Fires, novel, 1930
- The Specter, novel, 1936
- Reminiscences of Tolstoy, Chekhov, and Andreyev, 1920–1928
- V.I. Lenin (В.И. Ленин), reminiscence, 1924–1931
- The I.V. Stalin White Sea - Baltic Sea Canal, 1934 (editor-in-chief)
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Drama
- The Philistines/The Smug Citizens/The Petty Bourgeois (Мещане), 1901
- The Lower Depths (На дне), 1902
- Summerfolk (Дачники), 1904
- Children of the Sun (Дети солнца), 1905
- Barbarians, 1905
- Enemies, 1906
- The Last Ones, 1908
- The Reception'/Vstrecha, 1910
- Queer People/Eccentrics, 1910
- Vassa Zheleznova, 1910
- The Zykovs, 1913
- Counterfeit Money, 1913
- The Old Man/The Judge/Starik, 1915, revised 1922, 1924
- Workaholic Slovotekov, 1920
- Somov and Others, 1930
- Yegor Bulychov and Others/Egor Bulychev, 1932
- Dostigayev and Others, 1933
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