Childhood in the World, My University

Author: Maxim Gorky
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Publish Date: 2003-03-01
Features: This book genuinely depicts the author's difficult childhood, reflecting some typical characteristics of the social life at that time, especially painting a vivid and lifelike picture of the customs and daily life of the petty bourgeois class in Russia. It not only reveals the "lead-heavy scandals" but also portrays many outstanding ordinary people around the author. Among them, the image of the grandmother is one of the most radiant and poetic figures in Russian literature. It is these ordinary people who gave young Gorky a positive influence, helping him develop a character that refuses to bow to ugly phenomena and shaping him into a strong and kind individual.