num_pages: 250
description: A collection of short stories by the popular and influential Russian author a founder of the socialist realism literary method and arguably the greatest Russian literary figure of the 20th century. He wrote stories plays memoirs and novels which touched the imagination of the Russian people and was the first Russian author to write sympathetically of such characters as tramps and thieves emphasizing their daily struggles against overwhelming odds.
language: English
title: Creatures That Once Were Men
publisher: Schwarz Press