MAXIM GORKY
LONDON
T. WERNER LAURIE, LTD.
8 ESSEX STREET, STRAND
1914
"Aleksyei Maksimovitch Pyeshkof (pseudonym Maxim Gorky). Born at Nijni-Novgorod, March 14, 1868. A Russian writer. He led a vagabond life for many years, working and tramping with the poorest classes in Russia, and his writings record the tragedy of poverty and crime as he found it. Among the best known of his works are 'MAKAR CHUDRA' (1890), 'EMILIAN PIBGAI,' 'CHELKASH,' 'OSHYBKA' (1895), 'TYENOVYA KARTINKI'(1895), 'TOSKA,' 'KONOVALOV' (1896), 'MALVA' (1896), 'FOMA GORDYEEV'(1901), 'MUJIKI' (1901). Three volumes of short stories (1898-99), 'MIEST-CHANYE' (1902), 'COMRADES' (1907), 'THE SPY' (1908), and 'IN THE DEPTHS,' a play". Century Cyclopædia of Names.
CONTENTS
ITALIAN TALES
[MAN AND THE SIMPLON]
[AN UNWRITTEN SONATA]
[SUN AND SEA]
[LOVE OF LOVERS]
[HEARTS AND CREEDS]
[THE TRAITOR'S MOTHER]
[THE FREAK]
[THE MIGHT OF MOTHERHOOD]
[A MESSAGE FROM THE SEA]
[THE HONOUR OF THE VILLAGE]
[THE SOCIALIST]
[THE HUNCHBACK]
[ON THE STEAMER]
RUSSIAN TALES
[THE PROFESSOR]
[THE POET]
[THE WRITER]
[THE MAN WITH A NATIONAL FACE]
[THE LIBERAL]
[THE JEWS AND THEIR FRIENDS]
[HARD TO PLEASE]
[PASSIVE RESISTANCE]
[MAKING A SUPERMAN]