My Childhood

Maxim Gorky1913–1914

The first volume of Gorky's autobiographical trilogy, serialized in Russia in 1913-1914. Through the boy Alyosha's eyes it records a childhood spent in the grandfather's dye-works household: the greed and violence of a petty-bourgeois family, the grandmother's folk tales and mercy, and how books pull a child out of the 'leaden abominations' of that life. The English translation (The Century Co., 1915) is in the public domain in the United States; the Internet Archive full-view scan is served here as local paginated full text; Chinese translations remain under copyright—this entry provides bibliographic lookup only for Chinese.

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The English translation is in the public domain and available from the Internet Archive. Chinese translations remain under copyright; please consult publishers, bookstores, or library systems for specific editions.

English Edition: My Childhood, English translation first published 1915 by The Century Co. (Internet Archive full-view scan of the 1915 Century printing; public-domain full text, served here as local paginated reading)
Chinese Edition: Chinese translations (various publishers, per respective copyright pages)
Rights Boundary: Gorky's Russian original and the 1915 English translation are in the public domain (author died 1936; translation published 1915, pre-1929 US publication). Chinese translations remain under copyright; no Chinese full text is hosted.

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