Category: Essays, Letters & Speeches
[The following—reprinted from the _Athenæum_ (London) of June 11th, 1920, and translated by S. Kotliansky is part of Gorky’s preface to the first catalogue of “World Literature,” the publishing house founded by him under the auspices of the Bolshevik government. It is reprinte...
Strip life of its color, mystery, infinitude; make it stale, make it grey, make it flat; rob the human being of his aura, deny him speech, quicken his movements into galvanic ac...
9. PART FOURFOUR PLAYS. Translated by Barrett H. Clark, with a Preface by Brieux. 1915. Contents: Olympe’s Marriage / Monsieur Poirier’s Son-in-Law / The House of Fourchambault / The Post-S...
8. CHAPTER V[12By this time, it was plain, Thimble and Thumb had found something to raise them to the window-hole, for Nod, as he glanced up, saw half of both their astonished faces (one eye o...
7. PART THREEWhen Punch had roared at the inn for days The walls went round in a ringing haze, Miriam, through the splendour seen, Twinkled and smiled like Sheba’s Queen, Jake was the devil...
6. PART TWOALARCÓN, Pedro A. de: Author “The Three-Cornered Hat”; _b._ 10 March, 1833, at Guadix, Prov. of Granada, Spain, _m._ Doña Paulina Contrera de Reyes, 1866. _Educ._: Guadix Semina...
4. PART FOUR[The following—reprinted from the _Athenæum_ (London) of June 11th, 1920, and translated by S. Kotliansky is part of Gorky’s preface to the first catalogue of “World Literature,...
3. PART THREE1. PART ONE2. PART TWO