Word: gorki
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Dates: during 1922-1922
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...left much to guess at and work out. But if you have the courage and the perseverance to discard the ever obvious, you find and will continue to find yourself free from the character-racking conventionalities of our useless modern civilization. His greatest admirers were his worst defaulters. Tolstoi, Gorki, etc. filched his work and vulgarized it, as did our very original, potent-seeming Bernard Shaw. But who cares for the fabric of a well monogramed kerchief...
...himself by painting portraits, practicing law, or newspaper reporting, reading insatiably always, until 1898, when he began his literary career. In 1901 Andreyev became famous through the publication of a small volume of stories which dealt with certain vital problems of Russian society. His stories attracted the attention of Gorki, then at the height of his fame who lent Andreyev a great deal of encouragement and assistance. Since that time his plays have been enthusiastically received and have had long runs in the theatres, while the printed editions of his works have been rapidly exhausted. The phenomenal success...