Makar Chudra. Chelkash. Old Woman Izergil

Here are Maxim Gorky’s early works—about strong in spirit, beautiful and proud people, freedom-loving and independent.

In these stories full of deep romanticism, the writer draws the characters and actions of the heroes with subtlety and precision. He creates vivid and contrasting images of the dashing gypsy Loiko and the proud beauty Radda, the thief Chelkash and the peasant Gavrila, the selfless Danko and the selfish Larra. The stories speak of good and evil, nobility and baseness, self-sacrifice and pride, humaneness and egoism.