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Tales from Gorky
Tales from GorkyWe should not give very much for the chances of a poor friendless lad of...
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Tales from Gorky
We should not give very much for the chances of a poor friendless lad of feeble constitution, vagrant disposition, and an overpowering taste for excitement, who should be turned adrift to shift for himself at an age when most young lads are still safe at school. The fortunes of such a one, if adequately recorded, might, and no doubt would, be infinitely more engrossing, if less edifying, than the humdrum chronicle of the steady clerk or patient mechanic; but a prison, or workhouse infirmary, might safely be predicted as the ultimate and inevitable receptacle of such a piece of human flotsam. But now let us supposea handy supposition, I admitthat our imaginary little nomad were endowed with that illuminating spark we call genius; let us suppose, too, that in late boyhood, or early manhood, he learnt to love letters, and deliberately set about describing his extraordinary experiences, as well as the strange bedfellows whom misery from time to time threw in his waywhat piquant, what grotesque pen-and-ink sketches we might expect from such an inspired ragamuffin! It would be Oliver Twist or Humphrey Clinker telling his own tale without the softening intervention of Mr. Charles Dickens or Mr. Tobias Smollett. ......Buy Now (To Read More)
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Ebook Number: 56870
Author: Gorky, Maksim
Release Date: Mar 29, 2018
Format: eBook
Language: English
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Translator: Bain, R. Nisbet (Robert Nisbet), 1854-1909
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