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Coloured by poverty and horrifying brutality, Gorky's childhood equipped him to understand - in a way denied to a Tolstoy or a Turgenev - the life of the ordinary Russian. After his father, a paperhanger and upholsterer, died of cholera, five-year-old Gorky was taken to live with his... read more
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“You have to know how to take things. Knowing how to take something-- that's very difficult!”
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“On a blank face even a scratch is a beauty mark.”
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“Imagine myself in childhood as a kind of hive to which, like bees, simple, ordinary people bore the honey of their ideas and their knowledge of life, generously enriching my soul with whatever they could offer. The honey was often dirty and bitter, but knowledge of any sort is still honey.”
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IN a narrow, darkened room, my father, dressed in a white and unusually long garment, lay on the floor under the window.
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- Maxim Gorky (Author)
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Original Language: English
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Publication Date: 1915
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Page Count: 374
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Publication Date: 1915
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Page Count: 374
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- Dewey: 809
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