This work is available for countries where copyright is Life+70 and in the USA.
OUT of the darkest depths of life, where vice and crime and misery abound, comes the Byron of the twentieth century, the poet of the vagabond and the proletariat, Maxim Gorky. Not like the beggar, humbly imploring for a crust in the name of the Lord, nor like the jeweller displaying his precious stones to dazzle and tempt the eye, he comes to the world,—nay, in accents of Tyrtaeus this commoner of Nizhni Novgorod spurs on his troops of freedom-loving heroes to… (more)
Language: English
Published in: 1901
Translator: Herman Berstein
Word count: 120,817 words (≈ about 8 hours)
Source: http://www.gutenberg.org/etext/2709
Copyright: This work is available for countries where copyright is Life+70 and in the USA.