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Title: My Childhood by Maxim Gorky, Ronald Wilks ISBN: 0-14-018285-3 Publisher: Viking Press Pub. Date: November, 1991 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $13.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.83 (12 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: Teachers, put Gorky on your reading lists
Comment: I first read this book as a college freshman and think it must be read by all young adults. Gorky is, after all, the "father of Russian literature" -- yet most people have never heard of this writer par excellence. His storytelling is smooth, intense, and warms the heart like a swig of vodka on a nippy night in Nizhny Novgorod (Gorky's birthplace). Wilk's translation is clear and quite excellent. Gorky's vivid memories of childhood will inspire one to recollect their own experiences growing up.
Rating: 5
Summary: How did he do it?
Comment: I bought this book on friday and finished it on sunday. It takes you deep into 19th century Russia and the semi-feudal nightmare of Gorky's childhood and it does so with pace and vitality. There are few judgements; about the brutality,horror and poverty inflicted on an intelligent suffering child who became grew up to be great. This is no Hollywood, bad guys get what they deserve happy read this is a true story and it is life. A must for any lover of Russian literature.
Rating: 5
Summary: Magnificent Memoir
Comment: The finest memoir of chilhood that I have ever read. I never felt like I was reading a translation. Gorky captures the wonder of a remarkable and sensitive soul.
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Title: Netochka Nezvanova (Penguin Classics) by Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Fyodor M. Dostoevsky, Jane Kentish ISBN: 0140444556 Publisher: Viking Press Pub. Date: January, 1986 List Price(USD): $12.00 |
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Title: Childhood, Boyhood and Youth by Leo Tolstoy, Rosemary Edmonds ISBN: 0140441395 Publisher: Viking Press Pub. Date: September, 1964 List Price(USD): $14.00 |
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Title: Sofia Petrovna (European Classics) by Lydia Chukovskaya, Aline Werth, Lidiia Korneevna Chukovskaia ISBN: 0810111500 Publisher: Northwestern University Press Pub. Date: May, 1994 List Price(USD): $11.92 |
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Title: Stalin: Breaker of Nations by Robert Conquest ISBN: 0140169539 Publisher: Penguin USA (Paper) Pub. Date: November, 1992 List Price(USD): $14.95 |
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Title: Dead Souls : A Novel by Nikolai Gogol ISBN: 0679776443 Publisher: Vintage Pub. Date: 25 March, 1997 List Price(USD): $14.00 |
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