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Usage examples of gorki.

From Gorki, Bennigsen descended the highroad to the bridge which, when they had looked it from the hill, the officer had pointed out as being the center of our position and where rows of fragrant new-mown hay lay by the riverside.

On returning to Gorki after having seen Prince Andrew, Pierre ordered his groom to get the horses ready and to call him early in the morning, and then immediately fell asleep behind a partition in a corner Boris had given up to him.

Chekhov and a didactic one like Gorki, one of those naive and nervous Russian intellectuals who thought that a little patience and kindness with the miserable, half savage, unfathomable Russian peasant would do the trick.

I feel it was rather hard upon Gorki to have spoken of him in the same lecture, but the contrast between the two is extremely instructive.

In the twenty-first century, when I hope Russia will be a sweeter country than it is just now, Gorki will be but a name in a textbook, but Chekhov will live as long as there are birchwoods and sunsets and the urge to write.

Russia than a multitude of other writers, such as Gorki for instance, who flaunted their social ideas in a procession of painted dummies.

I shall go further and say that the person who prefers Dostoevski or Gorki to Chekhov will never be able to grasp the essentials of Russian literature and Russian life, and, which is far more important, the essentials of universal literary art.

He died when Gorki was four, and this was why his widowed mother had gone back to live with her dreadful family.

She observed that a great number of bums kept coming to see her husband, to which Gorki politely agreed.

When the police received an order to arrest one of these and found that he had given them the slip, they arrested Gorki for questioning.

His criticism, however, was so severe that it frightened Gorki, who gave up writing for a long time and went to Rostov where he worked for a while as a longshoreman.

And it was not Korolenko, but a revolutionary named Alexander Kaluzhny, a chance acquaintance in Tiflis in the Caucasus, who helped Gorki to find his way in literature.

Kaluzhny insisted that Gorki write it down in simple words, the same in which he used to tell it.

During this year of journalism in Samara, Gorki devoted himself to work.

The Government was forced to yield to public opinion: Gorki was released from prison and confined in his own home instead.