Maxim gorky autobiography of a flea market

Born in Nizhny Novgorod (400km east of Moscow) he grew up in poverty. Gorky became an orphan at nine years old and thereafter lived with his grandmother, whose husband was a cruel man who often beat Maxim. After the death of his grandmother, whom he loved deeply, he attempted suicide in 1887. He the began his famous five years of "vagrant" wandering, which he called his "university." In these five years Gorky traveled around Russia on foot and took on many short-term odd jobs to support himself. After he "graduated" he began writing for provincial newspapers as well as preparing more substantial works. A master of short stories, novels, plays, and articles, his works focused on social questions and he was an open partisan of the downtrodden. Gorky's open partisanship for the oppressed was all the more authentic and unique in that he had a background of privatization and extreme poverty, not of wealth and comfort like many writers

Maxim gorky autobiography of a flea market dog