A SkyBlue Life and Selected Stories Author:Maxim Gorky Against a background of steppe and shore, river and mountain, peasant village and teeming city, Gorky brings to life and unforgettable gallery of characters, portrayed in all their ignorance and wisdom; their brutality; their delicate, almost inarticulate, yearnings. These tales tell of theft and murder, love and birth, tragic pain and fleeting... more » beauty; in them Gorky reveals both his intimate knowledge of the most sordid aspects of existence. Translated from Russian.« less