My Universities (Penguin Twentieth Century Classics S.) - Softcover

Gorky, Maxim; Wilks, Ronald

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0140182861 ISBN 13: 9780140182866

Publisher: Penguin Classics, 1992

Synopsis

Written by the founding father of socialist realism in literature, this is an autobiographical work. The author also wrote "Fragments from my Diary", "My Apprenticeship", "My Childhood", "The Lower Depths", "The Zykovs" and "Children of the Sun".

About this title

About the Author:

Maxim Gorky was born in 1868 in Nizhny Novgorod. After a grim childhood and some years of wandering he began to write stories and by his thirties had become famous both for fiction and plays. He became involved in revolutionary activity against the tsarist regime in Russia and had a confused, difficult relationship with the Soviet dictatorship, partly living abroad and yet becoming the USSR's most feted and widely read author. He died in 1936 under suspicious circumstances and Stalin and Molotov were among the bearers of his coffin.

About this edition

• Publisher: Penguin Classics
• Publication date: 1992
• ISBN 10: 0140182861
• ISBN 13: 9780140182866
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 160