Excerpt from Maxim Gorky: His Life and WritingsViewed from a certain angle Of vision, his life is as entertaining, though by no means as poetical, as a fairy story the ups and downs of his desperate struggle for mere existence, as contrasted With the perfect ease with which, on emerging from the subterranean depths, he swept everything before him, winning world wide fame, and taking the commanding heights Of literature by storm, have, in truth, more of bewildering mystery and of palpitating interest than the vicissitudes undergone by the most heroic figure in the long procession of strong-willed vagrants whom he has caused to defile before our eyes.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.