AUTHORS STUDIED (in the order we read them): Pushkin. Lermontov. Gogol. Fonvizin. Turgenev. Dostoevsky. Leskov. Chekhov. Garshin. Tolstoy. Gorky. Andreev. Bunin. Babel. Zamiatin. Polevoi. Platonov. Nagibin. Ilf and Petrov. Zoshchenko. Nabokov. Paustovsky. Kazakov. Solzhenitsyn. Trifonov. Shukshin. Bitov. Iskander. Aksenov. Aitmatov. Sokolov. Rasputin. Petrushevskaya. Tolstaya.
Twenty-Six Men and a Girl. From the print version: Gorky, Maxim "Twenty-Six Men and a Girl" Trans. Emily Jakowleff and Dora B. Montefiore The Collected Short Stories of Maxim Gorky Ed. Avrahm Yarmolinsky and Baroness Moura Budberg. Secaucus, NJ: Citadel Press, 1988. 174-191
Fat-Faced Passions. Translated text and a little about Gorky. From the "Soviet Literature" page.
Through Russia. Text available through download from various sites. Gutenberg project.
Maxim Gorky. Biography and some links.
Maksim Gorky. From the "Encyclopedia of Soviet Writers" page.
Mark Twain and the Gorky Debacle. By Jim Zwick. Contains informational links that give you the background to the Twain/Gorky exchange of 1906) 5/13/97. Includes several articles that appeared in the New York Times.
Creative Quotations from Maxim Gorky. (Noted by Franklin C. Baer.)
Time for "Untimely Thoughts". A few paragraphs on the celebration of Gorky's 130th anniversary from his birth. By Olga Rusanova.
Maksim Gorky (1868-1936). Brief introduction to his work.
Maxim Gorky. From Spartacus Educational.
The Shekhtel House Maxim Gorky Museum). A couple of pictures and brief text. (Copyright Seanet Corporation.)
Maksim Gorky. Drawing by M. S. Nappelbaum, 1931. Also Maksim Gorky addressing factory workers (1930's). Drawing by A. Shaikhet.
Photograph of author Maxim Gorky. (on the left, with literary critic Vladimir Stasov and artist Ilya Repin).
Chekhov and Gorky. Photograph from "Funet"
Portrait of Maxim Gorky. By Ilya Repin. On Olga's Gallery porch.
Gorky. Photo. on the Playwrights page.
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