In the World -- A Must-Read for Youth Quality Education Cherry Blossom Edition

Author: Li Jie
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Publish Date: 2003-04-01
Features: In the World is not only the author's autobiography of his childhood, but also the life history of a young boy, and it is also a record of the artistic quality of an era, reflecting the disintegration process of small-bourgeois crafts caused by the growth of industrial capitalism in Russia. The bankruptcy of Kashiin's family, the maternal grandfather of Alyosha, is a true portrayal of Russia in the 1870s and 1880s. In the World depicts the life of young Alyosha after enduring a difficult childhood and beginning to engage with society. Gorky reveals the real life of the lower strata of society to every reader with a masterful realist technique, allowing the oppressive, heavy, and often vulgar social realities to be laid bare before the readers. Every character he portrays is so vividly lifelike; the kind grandmother is sacred like the Virgin Mary, the stingy and cruel grandfather is both infuriating and pitiful, the ship's cook Smery is vulgar yet reveals a fundamental integrity, the religious antiquities expert Peter is cunning and treacherous to everyone, and the seamstress wife brings a touch of warmth to the heavy and oppressive life.