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Who it's for
A good fit for
- Intermediate and advanced language learners studying Finnish who wish to engage with literary originals
- Literary researchers studying the translation and dissemination of Gorky's work in Northern Europe
- Translators engaged in Finnish translation practice who need short-text samples
- Digital reading enthusiasts who collect public-domain eBooks and follow Project Gutenberg resources
Not a good fit for
- General Chinese readers without Finnish who wish to understand the story directly
- Entry-level foreign-literature enthusiasts expecting Chinese annotations or introductions
- Teachers seeking Gorky's representative novels or plays for instructional use
Reading tips
- Read through once to grasp the plot, then read key passages closely with a dictionary to accumulate literary expressions.
- Read alongside Chinese translations of other Gorky short stories, comparing characterization and narrative perspective.
- Record new words and sentence patterns, organizing them into language-learning notes by chapter for review.
- Learn about late 19th-century Russian social context before reading to help understand the characters' circumstances.
About the publisher
Project Gutenberg is a digital publishing project focused on public-domain ebooks. Its publishing direction centers on classic literary works whose copyright has expired, covering genres such as poetry, drama, fiction, and epic. Representative books include Lyrical Ballads by Wordsworth and Coleridge, Proust's Du côté de chez Swann, Shakespeare's Macbeth and The Complete Works of William Shakespeare, Homer's The Iliad, Dante's La Divina Comèdia: Purgatòri, Cervantes's The History of Don Quixote, Volume 2, and Grahame's The Wind in the Willows. Its author resources consist mainly of classic Western writers such as Wordsworth, Proust, Shakespeare, Homer, Dante, Cervantes, Grahame, and Tolstoy. Its publishing feature is the provision of freely accessible ebooks in EPUB and Kindle formats; it is not a traditional publisher, and publicly available information is limited.
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About the author
Maxim Gorky (Gorky, Maksim, 1868-1936) is a highly influential writer in the history of Russian and Soviet literature. This site holds 32 of his works, including the plays The Lower Depths (Pohjalla: Kuvaelmia, neljä näytöstä and The Lower Depths: A Drama in Four Acts), the autobiographical In the World (a sequel to My Childhood), the novel Mother, and shorter fiction and story collections such as Twenty-six and One, Konovalov, Orlóff and His Wife, and Tales from Gorky. His writing often focuses on the wandering, struggle, and awakening of lower-class people, distinguished by realistic detail and vivid characterization; the play The Lower Depths is especially notable for its ensemble structure portraying the urban poor, and has had a lasting influence. Because the database lacks nationality, birth and death dates, and classification information, public information is limited, so no additional biographical inferences are made here.
