{"product_id":"creatures-that-once-were-men-and-other-stories-paperback","title":"Creatures That Once Were Men, and Other Stories - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eA collection of short stories by one of the most eminent Russian author, Maxim Gorky. Born as Alexei Maximovich Peshkov, this great man was a Russian writer and political activist. He was nominated five times for the Nobel Prize in Literature. Gorky's most famous works are his early short stories, written in the 1890s; plays The Philistines (1901), The Lower Depths (1902) and Children of the Sun (1905); a poem, \"The Song of the Stormy Petrel\" (1901); his autobiographical trilogy, My Childhood, In the World, My Universities (1913-1923); and a novel, Mother (1906); and post-revolutionary works such as the novels The Artamonov Business (1925) and The Life of Klim Samgin (1925-1936), the latter is considered Gorky's masterpiece and has sometimes been viewed by critics as a modernist work. He had associations with fellow Russian writers Leo Tolstoy and Anton Chekhov, both mentioned by Gorky in his memoirs.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":68336506405087,"sku":"9789355462114","price":24.46,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0813\/8958\/4607\/files\/J_fI30Wz6t9789355462114.webp?v=1793267639","url":"https:\/\/blackandbarhe.com\/products\/creatures-that-once-were-men-and-other-stories-paperback","provider":"Black \u0026 Barhe Bookstore","version":"1.0","type":"link"}