Maxim Gorky (Cyclopedia of World Authors)
In the work of Aleksey Maksimovich Peshkov, who renamed himself Maxim Gorky (gawr-KEE) or Gorki (which means “bitter”), the late nineteenth and early twentieth century history of the Russian people, their politics, and their literature can be discovered. More than any other author he succeeded in mirroring the hectic times in which he was born and that defined his style and supported his efforts. Orphaned at an early age from his upholsterer father and peasant mother, he was brought up by a tyrannical grandfather and a sympathetic grandmother. At the age of nine he was apprenticed...
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