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Three Men

By Maxim Gorky

2019-06-13 23:09:04

There are many solitary graves amid the woods of Kerschentz; within them moulder the bones of old men, men of ancient piety, and of one of these old men, Antipa, this tale is told in the villages of Kerschentz. Antipa Lunev, a rich peasant of aust ... Read more
There are many solitary graves amid the woods of Kerschentz; within them moulder the bones of old men, men of ancient piety, and of one of these old men, Antipa, this tale is told in the villages of Kerschentz. Antipa Lunev, a rich peasant of austere disposition, lived to his fiftieth year, sunken in worldly sins, then was moved to profound self-examination, and seized with agony of soul, forsook his family and buried himself in the loneliness of the forest. There on the edge of a ravine he built his hermit's cell, and lived for eight years, summer and winter. Less

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File size348.555 KB
Print pages368
PublisherPublic Domain Books
LanguageEnglish
ISBN978-1330380154
Author
Alexei Maximovich Peshkov (March 1868 – 18 June 1936), Maxim Gorky was a Russian and Soviet writer, a founder of the socialist realism literary method, and a political activist. He was also a five-t...

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