About this title: 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 grandfather, a polecat-faced tyrant who would regularly beat him ...
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Edition: Later Printing
Binding: Mass Market Paperback
Publisher: Penguin Books, New York, New York, U.S.A.
Date Published: 1974
ISBN-13:9780140441789ISBN:0140441786
Description: Very Good. The first part of Maxim Gorky's autobiographical trilogy. The ordinary experiences of a Russian boy in the nineteenth century are recalled by an extraordinary man, whose gift for recapturing the world of a child is uncanny. Mild wear, no spine creases, text has age-toned but otherwise unmarked and clean throughout with a tight binding. read more
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Century Co
Date Published: 1919
Description: Hardcover; ex-library; Good / No DustJacket; nameplate on front pastedown; 374 pages. Usual exlib markings. Text is clean and unmarked. Good hardcover reading copy. read more
Binding: Paperback
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
Date Published: 1969
ISBN-13:9780140441789ISBN:0140441786
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"A fascinating and stylistically unique autobiography set mostly in 1800s rural farm Russia. Lucidly told, poetically written and full of well developed characterizations. A fascinating read about the childhood of one of Russia's most fascinating writers set in a time and place one seldoms hears much about."
"Gorky articles were better. i was actually really disappointed. i think what i liked in his article about the nizhny novgorod fair was the surreal quality of wonder he got across, but with his memoir it's like he's too poetically descriptive in a way that robs it of any immediacy, or any feel that it is actually real. all the damage that i want to feel and cringe at is lessened by a plethora of words and adjectives."
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