“… Gorky’s is an enormous artistic talent which has been, and will be, of great benefit to the world proletarian movement.”

This selection of short stories by Maxim Gorky includes Makar Chudra Chelkash, old Izergil, Konovalov, and other stories of the 1890’s that won him world fame novellas from Tales of Italy and through Russia the two cycle of 1912-1913 – and stories written in the last years of his life.