My Childhood, Paperback/Maxim Gorky

Coloured by poverty and horrifying brutality, Gorky's childhood equipped him to understand - in a way denied to a Tolstoy or a Turgenev - the life of the ordinary Russian. This volume of an autobiographical trilogy, was in part an act of exorcism. It describes a life begun in the raw, remembered with charm and poignancy and without bitterness. Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd Author(s): Maxim Gorky Translator: Ronald Wilks Number of pages: 240 Collection: Penguin Modern Classics Publication date: 1990 Dimensions: 195 x 129 x 15 Cover type: Paperback / softback