Maxim Gorky - A Short Story Collection: Nominated for the Nobel prize in literature 5 times, Gorky was a truly special short story writer, we implore you to see why, in this collection.

Maxim Gorky - A Short Story Collection: Nominated for the Nobel prize in literature 5 times, Gorky was a truly special short story writer, we implore you to see why, in this collection.

Title: Maxim Gorky - A Short Story Collection: Nominated for the Nobel prize in literature 5 times, Gorky was a truly special short story writer, we implore you to see why, in this collection.
Author: Maxim Gorky
Release: 2022-08-08
Kind: audiobook
Genre: Fiction
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Maxim Gorky - A Short Story Collection: Maxim Gorky
Alexei Maximovich Peshkov was born on 28th March 1868, in Nizhny Novgorod, Russia.
Better known as Maxim Gorky he was orphaned at 11 and ran away from home at 12. At 19 he had already attempted suicide and thereafter travelled, by foot, across the Russian Empire for 5 years.

His first book ‘Essays & Stories’ in 1898 was a sensation and so began a long career as an author of short stories, novels and plays. Gorky saw writing as a moral and political act that would help to change the unjust world around him. He was an ardent early advocate of the emerging Marxist movement and publicly opposed the Tsarist regime leading several times to his arrest.

In 1904 he began his own theatre but the censor banned every play and Gorky was forced to abandon the project.

But Gorky was a financially successful author, editor, and playwright and gave monies to political parties as well as for civil rights and social reform. The brutal shooting of workers, which set in motion the Revolution of 1905, pushed Gorky more decisively toward radical solutions.

In 1906 he went to the United States to raise funds for the Bolsheviks. Those experiences including a scandal over travelling with his lover and not his wife deepened his contempt for the ‘bourgeois soul.’

Gorky now moved to Capri in Italy, both for health reasons and to escape the increasingly repressive times in Russia.

An amnesty for the 300th anniversary of the Romanov dynasty saw him return to Russia in 1914. His politics remained close to the Bolshevik cause. But soon, after the 1918 revolution, his essays referred to Lenin as a tyrant for his senseless arrests and repression. He was soon appealing to the outside world for food aid after the catastrophic crop failure.

In October 1921 Gorky returned to Italy, now in Fascist hands, and settled in Sorrento until 1932. His health worsened with the onset of tuberculosis.

He wrote several successful books there but now decided to find an understanding with the communist regime. Stalin invited him home and his return was hailed as a major propaganda victory. He was decorated with the Order of Lenin, and a province, a park, and various streets re-named in his honour.

But he had his faults too. In 1933, Gorky co-edited a book on the White Sea-Baltic Canal and denied even a single prisoner died during its construction, but thousands had. As well, knowing that some Nazis were homosexual, a phrase was attributed to him that said ‘exterminate all homosexuals and fascism will vanish’. Although he was himself was quoting another he was decidedly homophobic.

With the increase of Stalinist repression in 1935 Gorky was placed under unannounced house arrest.

Maxim Gorky died on the 18th June 1936 from pneumonia. He was 68.

Stalin and Molotov were among those who carried Gorky's urn of ashes at his funeral.

01 - Maxim Gorky - A Short Story Collection - An Introduction

02 - Twenty-Six Men and a Girl by Maxim Gorky

03 - One Autumn Night by Maxim Gorky

04 - In The Steppe by Maxim Gorky

05 - Her Lover by Maxim Gorky

06 - Chelkash - Part 1 by Maxim Gorky

07 - Chelkash - Part 2 by Maxim Gorky

08 - Chelkash - Part 3 by Maxim Gorky

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