Maxim Gorky MEGAPACK(R)

Alexei Maximovich Peshkov (1868-1936), primarily known as Maxim (or Maksim) Gorky, was a Russian and Soviet writer, a founder of the socialist realism literary method and a political activist. Around fifteen years before success as a writer, he frequently changed jobs and roamed across the Russian Empire; these experiences would later influence his writing. Gorky's most famous works were The Lower Depths (1902), Twenty-six Men and a Girl, The Song of the Stormy Petrel, The Mother, Summerfolk and Children of the Sun. He had an association with fellow Russian writers Leo Tolstoy and Anton Chekhov; Gorky would later write his memoirs on both of them.Gorky was active with the emerging Marxist social-democratic movement. He publicly opposed the Tsarist regime, and for a time closely associated himself with Vladimir Lenin and Alexander Bogdanov's Bolshevik wing of the party. For a significant part of his life, he was exiled from Russia and later the Soviet Union. In 1932, he returned to Russia on Joseph Stalin's personal invitation and died in June 1936.This volume includes 61 classic novels and stories:MAXIME GORKY, by Ivan StrannikINTRODUCTION, by G.K. ChestertonCREATURES THAT ONCE WERE MENTWENTY-SIX MEN AND A GIRLCHELKASHMY FELLOW-TRAVELLERON A RAFTTWENTY-SIX AND ONETCHELKACHEMALVATHROUGH RUSSIATHE BIRTH OF A MANTHE ICEBREAKERGUBINNILUSHKATHE CEMETERYON A RIVER STEAMERA WOMANIN A MOUNTAIN DEFILEKALININTHE DEAD MANRUSSIA AND THE JEWSANTON CHEKHOV: FRAGMENTS OF RECOLLECTIONSTHE MAN WHO WAS AFRAIDMOTHER (Part I)MOTHER (Part II)ONE AUTUMN NIGHTHER LOVERTHE SPY, by Maxim GorkyTHE OUTCASTSTHE AFFAIR OF THE CLASPSTHE CONFESSIONORLFF AND HIS WIFEKONOVLOFFTHE KHAN AND HIS SONTHE EXORCISMMEN WITH PASTSTHE INSOLENT MANVRENKA LESOFFCOMRADESMAN AND THE SIMPLONAN UNWRITTEN SONATASUN AND SEALOVE OF LOVERSHEARTS AND CREEDSTHE TRAITOR'S MOTHERTHE FREAKTHE MIGHT OF MOTHERHOODA MESSAGE FROM THE SEATHE HONOUR OF THE VILLAGETHE SOCIALISTTHE HUNCHBACKON THE STEAMERTHE PROFESSORTHE POETTHE WRITERTHE MAN WITH A NATIONAL FACETHE LIBERALTHE JEWS AND THEIR FRIENDSHARD TO PLEASEPASSIVE RESISTANCEMAKING A SUPERMANIN THE WORLD