Foma Gordeev. At the Bottom. Essays and Stories

This single volume collects the works of Maxim Gorky, created during the pivotal time of the turn of the century, when his unique voice—the voice of the "stormy petrel of the revolution"—was being formed.Present here are essays and short stories from 1899–1900: "Twenty-Six and One," "Bubbles," "The Peasant," "Vaska the Red," and others. They reveal the harsh truth about the lives of the people, ab...