My Childhood - Maxim Gorky

Name: My Childhood
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Author: Maxim Gorky

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After his father, a paper hanger and upholsterer, died of cholera, five-year-old Gorky was taken to live with his grandfather, a polecat-faced tyrant who would regularly beat him unconscious, and with his grandmother, a tender mountain of a woman and a wonderful storyteller, who would kneel beside their bed (Gorky miming sleep) and give God her view on the day's happenings, down to the last fascinating detail. She was, in fact, Gorky's closest friend and the epic heroine of a book swarming with characters a...

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