“Like all Gorky’s work it is sternly realistic, free from the tricks of the romanticists, without elaborated plot, just a piece of the web of life, as plain and patternless as when it left the loom of the fates.”
| + | Ind. 63: 159. Jl. 18, ’07. 340w. |
“His book is a sort of rude epic of Russian poverty and oppression, from which nothing is omitted.”
| + − | Lit. D. 34: 961. Je. 15, ’07. 430w. |
“Hardly elsewhere has socialism spoken with a voice at once so deep and so gentle.”
| + | Nation. 84: 544. Je. 13, ’07. 560w. |
“A powerful story, which may be too sentimental and overwrought, but deserves serious attention.”
| + − | N. Y. Times. 12: 272. Ap. 27, ’07. 60w. |
“This book peculiarly merits its sacred title.”
| + | N. Y. Times. 12: 333. My. 25, ’07. 840w. | |
| N. Y. Times. 12: 381. Je. 15, ’07. 150w. |