My Childhood

Maxim Gorky was a Russian and Soviet writer, a founder of the socialist realism literary method, and a political activist. He was also a five-time nominee for the Nobel Prize in Literature. Around fifteen years before success as a writer, he frequently changed jobs and roamed across the Russian Empire; these experiences would later influence his writing.

‘My Childhood’ is colored by poverty and horrifying brutality, Gorky's childhood equipped him to understand—in a way denied to a Tolstoy o...