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My Childhood (Classic, 20th-Century, Penguin) (Updated Edition) by Maxim (Translated With Introduction By Ronald Wilks) Gorky, Ronald Wilks (Translator), Maksim Gorky Paperback, 240 Pages, Published 1991 ISBN-10: 0-14-018285-3 / 0140182853 ISBN-13: 978-0-14-018285-9 / 9780140182859 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-old Gorky was taken to live with his grandfather, a |