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Publication
Penguin Classics (1983), Paperback, 368 pages
Description
This second volume of Gorky's autobiographical trilogy records his first encounters with the violent side of Russian life during the later years of the 19th century. It reflects his gift for compelling narrative and his deep strength of character.
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LibraryThing member martin1400
Of the Gorky trilogy it is Childhood which is the most read and receives the most acclaim, but My Apprenticeship is equally good. Essentially a continuation of the first volume, it starts with Gorky leaving his family at age 12 to go out to work, and ends with him going to Kazan at age 17 in the
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misplaced hope of getting into university there. In between are over 400 pages of the most vivid descriptions of the many and varied places he worked, the people he worked with and the extraordinary life he lived and events he experienced. The harshness of life for the 'lower depths' in 19th century Russia is scarecly beliveable for us to today, but Gorky's incomparable accounts of his growing up in its brutal and miserable realities, all the while developing his unquenchable thirst for reading and knowledge, put the reader right in the thick of it. Show Less
LibraryThing member LeonardGMokos
Worth it just for the part where he describes Leo Tolstoy's hands.
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Original language
Russian
Original publication date
1915 (original Russian)
1974 (English: Wilks)
Physical description
368 p.; 7.72 inches
ISBN
014044291X / 9780140442915