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  • Gorki's suggestion resulted in a book called One Day in the World, which first appeared in Russian in 1937.

    Past Imperfect Isaacs, Harold R. 1983

  • Despite her long liaison with Maxim Gorki, she was a great friend of Gorki's widow, and they sat in rocking chairs reminiscing about the object of their adoration on the veranda of a dacha near Moscow.

    An Autobiography Peter, Ustinov 1977

  • Characterisation; Environment; Gorki's predecessors; Reaction and pessimism; Literature and society; Gorki's youth; Hard times; A vagrant life; Journalist days; Rapid success; The new heroes; Creatures once men; Vagabond philosophy; Accusing symbolism.

    Maxim Gorki Hans Ostwald

  • And yet it is just this sombre pathos and experience that compel us so often to recognise in Gorki's types a new category of hero.

    Maxim Gorki Hans Ostwald

  • It is this characteristic union of the Human-All-Too-Human with his impressions of Nature in so many of Gorki's works, that makes them at the outset desirable and readable to a large proportion of his public.

    Maxim Gorki Hans Ostwald

  • The result would undoubtedly have been even more striking if Gorki's heroes were not invariably tainted with vestiges of the old order.

    Maxim Gorki Hans Ostwald

  • The most subtle analysis of Gorki's talent would, however, be inadequate to cover his full significance as a writer.

    Maxim Gorki Hans Ostwald

  • But Gorki's new conception of life is less clearly and broadly formulated in these than in Nil, and other subsequent characters.

    Maxim Gorki Hans Ostwald

  • Even though some of Gorki's heroes founder like the heroes of bygone epochs of literature upon their weakness, more of the "Bitter One's" characters are shipwrecked on a deed.

    Maxim Gorki Hans Ostwald

  • To us, therefore, Gorki's "creatures that once were men" appear strange and abnormal types.

    Maxim Gorki Hans Ostwald

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