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Author: Maxim Gorky
Desc: 1926. Maxim Gorky pseudonym of Alexei Maksimovich Peshkov Soviet novelist playwright and essayist who was a founder of social realism. Although known principally as a writer he was closely associated with the tumultuous revolutionary period of his own country. My Childhood the first volume of Gorky's autobiographical trilogy was in part an act of exorcism. It describes a life begun in the raw remembered with extraordinary charm and poignancy and without bitterness. Of all Gorky's books this is the one that made him the father of Russian literature. See other titles by this author available from Kessinger Publishing.