Submerged
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| Partner: | buecher.de |
| Hersteller: | Forgotten Books (Gorki, Maxim) |
| Stand: | 2015-08-04 03:50:33 |
Produktbeschreibung
Excerpt from Submerged: Scenes From Russian Life in Four Acts Sprung out of darkness and misery, enjoying for a brief moment the thrill of fame and power, and then plunged once more into misery and disease, - this has been the career of Gorki, "the bitter voice of Russia." Alexei Maximovitch Pyeshkov was born March 26th, 1869, at Nijny-Novgorod. His grandfather had been a Lieutenant under Nicholas I until his degradation for cruelty to his soldiers. Orphaned at nine through an epidemic of cholera which he himself, fortunately or unfortunately survived, Gorki was apprenticed to a shoemaker who dismissed him after a trial of eight weeks. Having been employed successively as draughtsman, assistant dauber of holy images and second-hand cook on a Volga steamer, he found all these distasteful to him. As an avocation to his dishwashing, he perused "The Tempest" and "A Midsummer Night´s Dream," copies of which he found on the ship. Determined to go to the university he hastened to Kazan, where like Jude, the Obscure, he found that education actually had to be paid for. This was perhaps the greatest disappointment of his life. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
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