Gorky Maxim. Chelkash and other stories

New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1925. — 252 p.His style is always vivid and definite. The influence of his early life and of his revolutionary sympathies is seen in all his works. Such intense bitterness, a spirit so critical and anarchistic, combined with touches of tenderness, a keen sense of natural beauty, and a very human code of morals, could be united only in a man of strong individuality. While his realistic studies of thieves, wastrels, vagrants, or working men are unique in the literature of any country, there is yet in them a touch of Romance which approves the sturdy rebel and despises the coward or fawning beggar. Fed by the poignant experiences of his life, by a passionate desire of liberty, and by an innate, artistic impulse, Gorky has put forth in his work a cry which goes right home to the heart of his countrymen and, beyond them, to the broad mind in every land. In later life and happier circumstances, he has developed the cosmopolitan interests of the wandering educated Russian. His bold and direct mind cannot fail to have its effect upon the writings of his contemporaries.Chelkash
Comrades
One Autumn Night
In the Steppe
Twenty-Six of us and One Other
The Green Kitten
A Rolling Stone
Her Lover
Chums