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My Childhood , which appeared in 1913, is the first part of Maxim Gorky's autobiographical trilogy. The ordinary experiences of a Russian boy in the nineteenth century are recalled by an altogether extraordinary man, whose gift for recapturing the world of a child is uncanny. Across the vision of the boy perched above the stove the Russian contrasts flicker - barbaric gaiety and deep gloom, satanic cruelty and saintly forebearance, clownish knaves and holy fools. A shutter in the mind closes: thirty years later the pictures develop, as fresh, as vivid, as exotic as when they were taken.
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Classics: My Childhood, Ronald Wilks, Maxim Gorki
- Language
- Released
- 1966
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- Book condition
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- Price
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- Language
- English
- Authors
- Ronald Wilks, Maxim Gorki
- Publisher
- Penguin Books
- Released
- 1966
- Format
- Paperback
- Pages
- 234
- ISBN10
- 0140441786
- ISBN13
- 9780140441789
- Series
- Original title
- Detstvo
- Rating
- 4 out of 5
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- My Childhood , which appeared in 1913, is the first part of Maxim Gorky's autobiographical trilogy. The ordinary experiences of a Russian boy in the nineteenth century are recalled by an altogether extraordinary man, whose gift for recapturing the world of a child is uncanny. Across the vision of the boy perched above the stove the Russian contrasts flicker - barbaric gaiety and deep gloom, satanic cruelty and saintly forebearance, clownish knaves and holy fools. A shutter in the mind closes: thirty years later the pictures develop, as fresh, as vivid, as exotic as when they were taken.