Title: Фома Гордеев
First published: 1906
Description: Out of the darkest depths of life, where vice and crime and misery abound, comes the Byron of the twentieth century, the poet of the vagabond and the proletariat, Maxim Gorky. Not like the beggar, humbly imploring for a crust in the name of the Lord, nor like the jeweller displaying his precious stones to dazzle and tempt the eye, he comes to the world, - nay, in accents of Tyrtaeus this commoner of Nizhni Novgorod spurs on his troops of freedom-loving heroes to conquer, as it were, the placid, self- satisfied literatures of to-day, and bring new life to pale, bloodless frames.
Subjects: Fiction, Social life and customs, Soviet union, fiction, Continental european fiction (fictional works by one author), Classic Literature
Places: Soviet Union, Russia
LC classification: PZ3.G678 Fo11, PG3463 Fo11