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Hours Spent in Prison. By Gorky, Andreyeff and Korolenko. Translated from the Russian [with Biographical Notes] by Marya Galinska
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Author: Marya GALIŃSKAHours Spent in Prison
Author: Maxim GorkyPublisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
ISBN: 9781519485656
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Pages : 168
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"HOURS SPENT IN PRISON." By Gorky, Andreyeff, and Korolenko. This title is the heading of a book, which gives a few biographical words about the poor and sad existence of three authors who represent the literary talent of contemporary Russia. It is a curious fact that under the stringent censorship of Nicholas I there were great writers, like Pushkin, Gogol, Lermontoff, etc., and that most of them belonged to the higher strata of society. At present the Russian Press itself is notorious for its license, but talented authors are scarce, and mostly of low origin, who, on principle, describe the slums. Gorky's "Song about a Hawk" is an allegory, and the "Destroyed Dam" is a poetical picture of the raging sea, probably suggesting a surging crowd overpowering tyranny. "Pogrom" is a ghastly representation of how the Russian mob slaughtered and robbed Jews. No reasons are, however, given why they did it. Cossacks and policemen come on the scene to save the situation. Now the mob began to climb the wall, and so invaded the courtyards. The Cossacks surrounded the flying crowd. A few moments ago these men had been mercilessly tormenting and killing wretched men, human beings like themselves. In a few seconds the same murderers had become nothing more than frightened, trembling cowards, who were trying to escape over any wall that was possible... If true, this suggests that the Jews are passive, the Russian mob ferocious and brutal, while the authorities represented by Cossacks and police are supine. Andreyeff's "An Abyss" is offensive and revolting, even for this decadent author; while the substance of "Marseillaise " is a description of a silly, feeble boy, who is unjustly imprisoned, but is supposed to become a hero because, when dying, he asks the other prisoners, who used to deride him, to sing the "Marseillaise" over him instead of reading a prayer for his burial service. Last, but not least, we have Vladimir Korolenko's "Strange Character" (from Personal Remembrances), a touching story of a soldier who had to watch a lady, evidently persecuted and exiled for being a sectarian. The story is remarkable for its simplicity and hidden meaning. Korolenko is very popular among the peasant class in Russia, and his books are more read in village circulating libraries (where such landmarks of civilization exist) than the works of other authors, whose eminent names are better known in Western Europe. - "Proceedings by Anglo-Russian Literary Society" [1908]
Hours Spent in Prison
Author: Marya GalinskaPublisher:
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Category : Prisons
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Hours Spent in Prison, by Gorky, Andreyeff and Korolenko
Author: Marya GalinskaPublisher: Hardpress Publishing
ISBN: 9781290107907
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Pages : 178
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Hours Spent in Prison, by Gorky, Andreyeff and Korolenko (Classic Reprint)
Author: Marya GalinskaPublisher:
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Pages : 166
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Excerpt from Hours Spent in Prison, by Gorky, Andreyeff and Korolenko His real name is Alexy Pieschkov, but he is only known by his nom-de-plume: Gorky (bitter). Bitter indeed were the days of his childhood. He was born in 1869, in the town of Nijni-Novogrod, in the workshop of a painter-varnisher. His grandfather was an officer in one of the regiments in Siberia, and treated the soldiers so cruelly, that even the Tsar, Nicolae I. - who was notorious for severity - dismissed the veteran from the service. By his action this tyrant forced Gorky's father to leave the parental home in Tobolsk. 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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Pages : 520
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Pages : 524
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Author: Maksim Gor'kij
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Author: Maxim Gorky