Maxim Gorky

Maxim Gorky (1868 - 1936), born Alexei Maximovich Peshkov, was a Russian writer and socialist political thinker. He was nominated five times for the Nobel Prize in Literature. His most famous works included his early short stories, written in the 1890s ("Chelkash", "Old Izergil", and "Twenty-Six Men and a Girl"); plays "The Philistines" (1901), "The Lower Depths" (1902) and "Children of the Sun" (1905); a poem, "The Song of the Stormy Petrel" (1901); his autobiographical trilogy - "My Childhood", "In the World", and "My Universities" (1913–1923); and a novel, Mother (1906).

Wisdom & Quotes

• When a woman gets married, it's like jumping into a hole in the ice in the middle of winter: you do it once and you remember it the rest of your days.

- The Lower Depths

• When work is a pleasure, life is a joy! When work is duty, life is slavery.

- The Lower Depths

• You can't do without philosophy, since everything has its hidden meaning which we must know.

- The Zykovs

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