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6 reviews

EbooksLib, 2004

Excellant portrayal of contemporary social history
Can be considered as one of the classics of the world literature, and magnum opus of the literary gaint of Russia Maxim Gorky "The Mother" shows how common soviet proletariat inspired and participated in the war against the autocratic czar and the capitalists of the country which eventually ended with the great October Revolution. Pelageya Nelovna - wife of a petty factory worker Vlassov stays ...

Arshile Gorky

1 review
Ethel K. (Preface By Lloyd Goodrich; Introduction By Meyer Schapiro) Schwabacher

Published for the Whitney Museum of American, 1957

Top monograph on Gorky
This book is valuable for the general art lover as well as art history researcher. Schwabacher was encouraged to write this book as someone who had first hand knowledge of Arshile. She was his pupil and supporter.I just compared : Mouritza ,Herrera ,Spender biographys on Gorky. I read their interpretations of "the artist and his mother." I think Ethel's is the most insightful.Hers was the first ...

Black Angel

5 reviews
Nouritza Matossian

Random House of Canada, Limited, 2001

Troubled Youth
For anyone convinced that crucial or shocking events during childhood have a major impact on psyche, this book is a must read to understand Gorky's art and his impact on American art. It is also an enlighting read to better understand the rituals, culture, and methods used by Gorky's (Adoian's) Armenian kin to survive (or not survive!) opression at the hands of the Ottoman Turks. Matossian ...

Arshile Gorky and the Genesis of Abstraction: Drawings from the Early 1930s

1 review
Matthew Spender, Barbara Rose

Univ of Washington Pr, 1995

A key book on Gorky
I love this catalogue . I look at it all of the time. For a small book this book packs a wallop as, this volume was selected for some of Gorky's best drawings.I have the retrospective of Gorky's drawings published by the Whitney Museun. Large books like it are good for the cocktail table for some . I don't allow any of my books out for company. People put drinks on top of art books. This book did ...

La Madre

2 reviews
Maximo Gorki

Edaf S.A., 2001

The Mother
This is defenetly Maxim Gorki's masterpiece. "La Madre"or "The Mother" is the romance of a old woman,Pelagia Vlassova That,little by little,takes conscience of the revolutionary ideal of her son Paul:when he is deported and,the old Pelagia,takes his place to carry on,instead of him,the same task. Capital testemony of the Russian people's drama in the begginig of the 20th century, "The Mother" is ...

My Universities

5 reviews
Maksim Gorky

Foreign Languages Pub. House, 1952

No One has Reviewed This Either?
Does anybody read out there? Only English Majors I guess. No one's read "The White Guard" either. I think I am going to throw up, Gorky is one of the best writers of the nineteenth century. Anyway, FIVE STARS, his eye roams like a camera and the book is completley honest, remarkably powerful.

My Childhood

17 reviews
Maxim Gorky

Kessinger Publishing, LLC, 2005

Brutal realism...highly entertaining and a good read
This is the 1st past of the trilogy of Maxim Gorky's autobiography. This is a really good and entertaining book, but contains at times morbid and depressing subject material, especially the unbelievable cruelty of some of the characters. There are some light moments though and if you enjoy realism and a brutal peek at what life was like in early 20th century Russian life for poor folks and enjoy ...

Red Square

30 reviews
Martin Cruz Smith

Random House, 1992

Back in the USSR
Martin Cruz Smith is a former journalist and magazine editor. "Red Square" is his third novel - after " Gorky Park " and "Polar Star" - to feature Arkady Renko and was first published in 1992. Renko, the hero, works as an Investigator with Moscow's militia - more or less the standard police force - and has something of a chequered career. Never a truly 'practising' member of the Party, Renko ...

Arshile Gorky: A Retrospective of Drawings

1 review
Janie C. Lee, Melvin P. Lader

Whitney Museum, 2003

Lader a Gorky scholar
Melvin Lader has done it again with this important book on Arshile Gorky.Since there is no book on Gorky ,such as a catalogue raissone this book almost meets that need it includes many drawings of Gorky . The color repros are very good.Motherwell called him the greatest technician of the 20th century.With RM's emphasis on automatic drawings you would think he would be more sympathetic to Gorky's ...

GORKY RISES

3 reviews
William Steig

Victor Gollancz, 1989

A story that transcends time...
I read this story to my son when he was a little tyke. He's now nearly 20. I haven't read the book in years, yet, lately, I've been thinking a lot about Gorky and his travels away from home, up into the "blue, blue sky". Guess it has something to do with my 3 kids all about ready to take off on their own. The prose is marvelous, full of colorful and descriptive language, the story is ...

Gorky's Tolstoy and Other Reminiscences: Key Writings by and about Maxim Gorky (Russian Literature and ...

1 review
Maxim Gorky

Yale University Press, 2008

A Dazzling View
What a stupendous work it is! The writings of one titan about another, and there's no exaggeration in either adjective. Gorky's descriptive ability is incredible - e.g., Tolstoy having eyes set around his head at regular intervals... The very ambivalence of his reactions gives them such power. Nothing that was published before even scratched the surface. What Tolstoy had to say about Chekhov ...

Bystander

1 review
Maxim Gorky

Folcroft Library Editions, 1930

A critically important read for anyone studying Gorky
Gorky's epic novel, built around the character of Klim Samgin, a liberal lawyer, is a bleak, comprehensive, and extremely devastating portrait of the Russian intelligensia from the 1870's until the time of the Revolution. Like the bourgeoisie, Gorky's intellectuals are driven by economic desires, conservativism, and hypocracy. Samgin, despite his liberal posture, distances himself from both the ...

On Literature: Selected Articles

1 review
Maksim Gorky

University Press of the Pacific, 2001

Essential reading
Gorky was not only a great writer, but also a literary critic and theorist.

LA Madre

1 review
Maksim Gorky

Yoyo USA, 2002

Un clásico
La Madre En esta novela, Máximo Gorki nos describe a la Rusia de inicios de la revolución, con una población cada vez más pobre, cansada de los abusos zaristas y conscientes de la desigualdad social. Acaso una situación no muy lejana a la latinoamericana. El amor maternal de Nílovna la arrastra a la vida revolucionaria en la cual se encontraba sumergida su hijo Pável. Ambos decidieron su ...

Gorky Park

70 reviews
Martin Cruz Smith

Pan Books, 2007

Best Martin Cruz Smith Work Ever
This is hands down his best book. You cannot beat this through out any of his other books. I am a Martin Cruz Smith fan as I have read most of his books and I still continue to re-read this book.

Surrealism Usa

1 review
Scott Rothkopf, Robert Lubar, ...

Hatje Cantz Publishers, 2005

Museum Quality
I was fortunate enough to see the Surrealism USA exhibit on tour in Phoenix in July. The collection was astounding. I found this book in the Phoenix Art Museum Store, however, $50 seemed like a lot to spend on a book while on a weekend vacation. I was thrilled to find it on Amazon for much less. The book is beautiful, the photographs are museum print quality and oversized, mostly one or two ...

Best Russian Short Stories. 19 stories by Anton Chekhov, Alexander Pushkin, Leo Tolstoy, Nikolai Gogol, Ivan ...

1 review, ...

MobileReference, 2008

Best anthology of Russian stories
Best Russian Short Stories. 19 stories by Anton Chekhov, Alexander Pushkin, Leo Tolstoy, Nikolai Gogol, Ivan Turgenev, Aleksandr Kuprin, Mikhail Saltykov-Shchedrin, ... Fiodor Sologub, Ignatii Potapenko, Leonid This collection is a stellar selection of some of the best of Russion Short stories. For a sampling of the cream of Russian writing, you cannot do better than this.

Arshile Gorky: The Main, the Time, the Idea

1 review
Harold Rosenberg

Sheep Meadow, 1981

praise from a top Abstract Expressionist enthusiast
Take a tip from Gorky, he always carried a small book or reproductions of favorite painters in his pocket. This is a good book to start this habit with the Grove series on modern artists.There is a Guston ,a Dubuffet an Arp in this series as well. Rosenberg knew most of the A.E. painters and Dekooning intimately so what he has to say about Gorky comes from a good source the Dekoonings (Bill and ...

The Collected Short Stories of Maxim Gorky

1 review
Maxim Gorky

Citadel, 1998

absorbing work of one brilliant individual
Gorky is quite unlike the other Russian writers that I've read. His works do exude the common pessimism, but that's clearly a by-product of the dreadful living conditions they all underwent. Beginning with detailed descriptions of place (even down to the nicks on a wooden lath or the odd drop of paint) that would do justice to Henry James, Gorky always delineates his characters so very ...

While Waiting to Win the Lottery!: The Baby Boomers' Money Manual

1 review
Luki Vail

Pendleton Pr, 1992

Factual text , Haunting cartoons, funny, light , enchanting
I loved the illustrations, very well thought out and timely advice for beginners in the financial investment communities. I laughted all the way thru the book due to the hilarous and haunting cartoons. The images stick in your mind long after you've forgotten the text. Good Job

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