Twenty-Six Men and a Girl: From their pens to your ears, genius in every story

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 wor...