By W. C. Brownell
This suggestive essay is a systematic exposition and defense of criticism by one of the foremost American critics. It considers philosophically the field, function, equipment, criterion and method of criticism in a way that will equally delight readers, authors, and critics.
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TALES OF TWO COUNTRIES
By MAXIM GORKY
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After a number of years, the potency of the great Russian’s pen is again exercised. This commanding volume of stories discloses varied aspects of the foremost living writer among those who attracted universal attention to modern Russian literature. The folk and psychology of Italy, to which country he retired in exile, supply the themes of thirteen of the twenty-two tales, the others are of Russian life. Gorky’s admirers will find in the collection a reaffirmation of the art which secured his high place among interpreters of life through fiction.