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My Childhood

My Childhood

Pocket Penguins Book 9

by Maxim Gorky
Paperback
Publication Date: 26/05/2016

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I could hear the frost crackling outside. Greenish moonbeams shone through windows covered with patterns of ice...

One of the most moving accounts of being a boy ever written, My Childhood is a both wonderful and harrowing memoir and one of the great works of Russian literature.

ISBN:
9780241261958
9780241261958
Category:
Classic fiction
Format:
Paperback
Publication Date:
26-05-2016
Language:
English
Publisher:
Penguin Books, Limited
Country of origin:
United Kingdom
Pages:
272
Dimensions (mm):
180.34x111.76x15.24mm
Weight:
0.16kg
Maxim Gorky

Maxim Gorky was born in 1868 in Nizhny Novgorod. After a grim childhood and some years of wandering he began to write stories and by his thirties had become famous both for fiction and plays.

He became involved in revolutionary activity against the tsarist regime in Russia and had a confused, difficult relationship with the Soviet dictatorship, partly living abroad and yet becoming the USSR's most feted and widely read author.

He died in 1936 under suspicious circumstances and Stalin and Molotov were among the bearers of his coffin. He is today most famous for his great autobiographical trilogy (of which My Childhood is the first part).

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