My Childhood: Maxim Gorky (Pocket Penguins) - Softcover

Gorky, Maxim

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0241261953 ISBN 13: 9780241261958

Publisher: Penguin Classics, 2016

Synopsis

'I could hear the frost crackling outside. Greenish moonbeams shone through windows covered with patterns of ice...'

One of the most moving accounts of being a boy ever written, My Childhood is a both wonderful and harrowing memoir - and one of the great works of Russian literature.

A new series of twenty distinctive, unforgettable Penguin Classics in a beautiful new design and pocket-sized format, with coloured jackets echoing Penguin's original covers.

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: 2016
• ISBN 10: 0241261953
• ISBN 13: 9780241261958
• Binding: Mass Market Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 272