My Universities
Condition: SECONDHAND
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Condition remarks:
Book: Good
Jacket: Chipped and worn with some minor damage
Pages: Good
In the final volume of Maxim Gorky's celebrated autobiographical trilogy, My Universities chronicles the young Alexei Peshkov's turbulent coming-of-age in the gritty industrial city of Kazan during the 1880s, where poverty, revolutionary ideas, and raw human struggle replace the lecture halls he had dreamed of attending. With unflinching honesty, Gorky presents a vivid portrait of life among the social outcasts — dock workers, intellectuals, bakers, and radical dreamers — who became the true educators of a future literary giant, shaping his worldview far more profoundly than any formal institution could. This is a memoir written not from comfort, but from the crucible of deprivation, capturing a Russia on the brink of upheaval with searing clarity. Completing the trilogy that began with Childhood and In the World, this final instalment stands as both a personal testament and a sweeping social document of Tsarist Russia's underclass. Gorky's prose is muscular and unadorned, carrying the weight of lived experience while never surrendering its poetic intensity — a style that would earn him the title of father of Soviet literature. Rich in moral complexity and animated by an indomitable spirit, My Universities leaves the reader wondering how one man's suffering could be transmuted into such enduring, luminous art.
Author: M. Gorky
Format: Hardback
Genre: Biography
Condition remarks:
Book: Good
Jacket: Chipped and worn with some minor damage
Pages: Good
In the final volume of Maxim Gorky's celebrated autobiographical trilogy, My Universities chronicles the young Alexei Peshkov's turbulent coming-of-age in the gritty industrial city of Kazan during the 1880s, where poverty, revolutionary ideas, and raw human struggle replace the lecture halls he had dreamed of attending. With unflinching honesty, Gorky presents a vivid portrait of life among the social outcasts — dock workers, intellectuals, bakers, and radical dreamers — who became the true educators of a future literary giant, shaping his worldview far more profoundly than any formal institution could. This is a memoir written not from comfort, but from the crucible of deprivation, capturing a Russia on the brink of upheaval with searing clarity. Completing the trilogy that began with Childhood and In the World, this final instalment stands as both a personal testament and a sweeping social document of Tsarist Russia's underclass. Gorky's prose is muscular and unadorned, carrying the weight of lived experience while never surrendering its poetic intensity — a style that would earn him the title of father of Soviet literature. Rich in moral complexity and animated by an indomitable spirit, My Universities leaves the reader wondering how one man's suffering could be transmuted into such enduring, luminous art.