Childhood. In the world

Author: Maxim Gorky (USSR) Original Work
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Publish Date: 2005-01-01
Features: My father died young, and my mother remarried. My "childhood" was spent with my grandmother and grandfather. Every day, my grandmother told me many fairy tales and taught me to read and write. My ideal was to become a military officer with a light-colored beard, so I studied very hard. As a child, I was very mischievous. Once, I put glue on the chairs where my stepfather and his mother sat, sticking them to the chairs! My stepfather treated my mother badly, often beating and scolding her, and I vowed to destroy myself along with him. Later, my mother died, and I bid farewell to my "childhood" and entered "the human world." I worked as an apprentice in a shoe store and an icon workshop, a dishwasher on a ship, and a helper in my uncle's home who worked as a draftsman. However, my thirst for knowledge made me determined to change my fate. I wanted to rely on knowledge to find a path suitable for myself. "Childhood," "In the World," and "My University" together form an autobiographical trilogy. Maxim Gorky, the author, was a Soviet writer and the founder of socialist realism literature. He came from poverty, which greatly influenced his thoughts and creative works. In 1901, he wrote the prose poem "The Song of the Sea Gull," and in 1906, he created two important works—Mother and the play Enemies, reaching a new peak in his creative career. The Illustrated Phonetic Edition of World Literary Classics is a series of books meticulously compiled and illustrated, specially dedicated to young readers. Its combination of text and illustrations, along with standard phonetic annotations that meet primary school teaching standards, fully meets the reading needs of elementary school students.