MAXIMS OF GORKY: Quotes of Maxim Gorky

The literary genius Aleksey Maksimovich Peshkov rose from the poverty to become a leading Russian author. The short story writer and novelists was known by the pseudonym Maxim Gorky. The controversial author achieved great fame during his lifetime. The five time nominee for the Nobel Prize In Literature has many famous works included The Lower Depths, Twenty six Men and a Girl, The Song of the StormyPetrel, My Childhood, Mother, Summer folk and Childen of the Sun. The association with fellow Russian writers Leo Tolstoy and Anton Chekhov was also mentioned in his memoirs. He was the founder of the socialist realism and was active with the emerging Marxist social democratic movement.