Min barndom by Maksim Gorkij, Maksim Gorkij

288 pages first pub 1913 (editions) user-added

nonfiction autobiography classics memoir reflective slow-paced

Description

Coloured by poverty and horrifying brutality, Gorky's childhood equipped him to understand - in a way denied to a Tolstoy or a Turgenev - the life of the ordinary Russian. After his father, a paperhanger and upholsterer, died of cholera, five-year...

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Moods

sad 100%
emotional 80%
adventurous 40%
dark 40%
informative 40%
challenging 20%
reflective 20%
tense 20%

Pace

slow 60%
medium 40%

Average rating

3.89

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