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Maxim Gorky
Maxim Gorky

Maxim Gorky, originally Pavlovich Vasiliyevich Korolenko, was a Russian writer known by his pen name. His works deeply revealed the sufferings of the lower classes and were hailed as masterpieces of Russian literature. His representative works include 'Childhood', 'On the Road', and 'My University'. more

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“Politics is the soil in which the nettle of poisonous enmity, evil suspicions, shameless lies, slander, morbid ambitions, and disrespect for the individual grows rapidly and luxuriantly. Name anything bad in man and it is precisely in the soil of political struggle that it grows with particular liveliness and abundance.”

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“The poor are always rich in children, and in the dirt and ditches of this street there are groups of them from morning to night, hungry, naked and dirty. Children are the living flowers of the earth, but these had the appearance of flowers that have faded prematurely, because they grew in ground where there was no healthy nourishment.”

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Book:The Maxim Gorky MEGAPACK®: 61 Classic Novels and Stories
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