A book of the utmost importance, in the words of Lenin, and a landmark in Russian literature, The Mother – here presented in a brilliant new version by Hugh Aplin, the first English... Læs mere
Adapted by Phil Wilmott for the stage. Perhaps Maxim Gorky's best-known play. It was written during the winter of 1901 and the spring of 1902. Subtitled "Scenes from Russian Life," it depicted a group of impoverished Russians living in a shelter near the Volga
An adaptation by Mike Bartlett of Maxim Gorky's savagely funny play, premiered at the Almeida Theatre, London, in 2019.
Coloured by poverty and horrifying brutality, Gorky's childhood equipped him to understand - in a way denied to a Tolstoy or a Turgenev - the life of the ordinary Russian. This volume of an... Læs mere
A superb new translation of ‘one of the most remarkable biographical pieces ever written’ (Leonard Woolf) by one of the great Russian writers of the twentieth century.
An adaptation of Maxim Gorky's razor-sharp portrait of class, privilege and denial, by Nina Raine and Moses Raine. Premiered at the National Theatre, London, in 2026.