Childhood. In people. My universities

Autobiographical trilogy of Maxim Gorky "Childhood. In people. My universities", on which he worked for 10 years, is one of the most significant works of Russian realistic literature of the twentieth century. The writer himself called her "that truth that needs to be known to the root, so that with the root and tear it out of memory, from the soul of a person, from our whole life, hard and shameful.
Provincial Russia literally comes to the reader of the trilogy at the end of the XIX - the beginning of the twentieth century, with its merchant courtyards and working outskirts, Volga ports, a series of colorful characters and an endless depth of understanding of the very soul of the Russian people, always balancing on the verge between beautiful and ugly, Between the crime and holiness