“He also must be in love, poor fellow—Well, that is their young sorrow—before happiness!” ...
And she soon forgot him, absorbed in her dreams of the happiness which seemed to her so inviolable and entire.
BOLESS
BY MAXIM GORKI
Alexei Maximovitch Pyeshkov, otherwise “Gorki,” or the “Bitter One,” was born in 1868, in the house of his grandfather, the dyer Kaschirin. A shoemaker’s apprentice at five years of age, his life has been a continued series of experiments and struggles—at one time gardener, at another, painter of icons, scullery boy on a Volga steamship, shoemaker, sawyer of wood, apple-seller, baker, and railroad porter. His first pictures of the life of the under-dog, based on his own experiences, were so masterly that he became in a surprisingly short time one of the most popular of Russian authors.
BOLESS
BY MAXIM GORKI
Translated by Lizzie B. Gorin. Copyright, 1907,
by P. F. Collier & Son.