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A Very Russian Christmas
The Greatest Russian Holiday Stories of All Time
A Very Russian Christmas
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Author:
Zoshchenko, Mikhail
Chekhov, Anton
Dostoyevsky, Fyodor
Tolstoy, Lev
Korolenko, Vladimir
Lukashevich, Klaudia
Gorky, Maxim
Teffi,
Series title:
Very Christmas Ser.
ISBN:
978-1-939931-44-3
Publication Date:
Sep 2016
Publisher:
New Vessel Press
Book Format:
Ebook
List Price:
USD $2.99
Book Description:
Nobody does Christmas like the Russians.
Nobody does Christmas like the Russians.
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Book Details
Pages:
160
Author Biography
Zoshchenko, Mikhail
(Author)
Alexei Maximovich Peshkov, better known as Maxim (Maksim) Gorky, was born on March 28th, 1968. Until the recent collapse of the Soviet state, Gorky was officially viewed as the greatest Russian writer of the twentieth century---an evaluation far above the true measure of his nevertheless considerable talent. Proclaimed the founder of socialist realism, he significantly influenced many Soviet writers, as well as others in Europe and in the developing world, and his works were for decades part of the Soviet school curriculum.
His formal education was minimal. From the age of 11, he fended for himself with a variety of jobs. Self-taught, he published his first story, "Makar Chudra," in 1892. His first collection, Sketches and Stories (1898), is a romantic celebration of society's strong outcasts---the hobos and the drifters---and helped to popularize such literary protagonists. Foma Gordeyev (1899), Gorky's first novel, depicts generational conflict within the Russian bourgeoisie.
A popular public figure on the left, Gorky was often in trouble with the tsarist government. During the 1900s, he was the central figure in the Znanie publishing house, which produced realist prose with a social conscience. Some of his own works were extremely successful. The play The Lower Depths (1902), set in a poorhouse and a strong indictment of social injustice, was not only a staple of Soviet theater but also influential in the United States. Eugene O'Neill's The Iceman Cometh was influenced by it. The propagandistic, extraordinarily influential novel Mother (1906) presents an iconic working-class woman who is transformed into a saint of the Revolution; its optimism in the ultimate triumph of the cause made it a prototype of socialist-realist fiction.
During the years prior to 1917, Gorky published a number of autobiographical stories: All Over Russia (1912--18) (also Through Russia) and his memoirs; My Childhood (1913--14), My Apprenticeship (1915--16), and My Univ
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