Three of Them

Three of Them is a 1901 novel by Maxim Gorky. The plot concerns Ilya Lunyev a boy from an urban slum who enters the middle-class milieu only to be disillusioned to find the same moral corruption. Alexei Maximovich Peshkov popularly known as Maxim Gorky was a Russian writer and political activist. He was nominated five times for the Nobel Prize in Literature. Gorkys most famous works are his early short stories written in the 1890s; plays The Philistines (1901) The Lower Depths (1902) and Children of the Sun (1905); a poem The Song of the Stormy Petrel (1901); his autobiographical trilogy My Childhood In the World My Universities (1913-1923); and a novel Mother (1906); and post-revolutionary works such as the novels The Artamonov Business (1925) and The Life of Klim Samgin (1925-1936) the latter is considered Gorkys masterpiece and has sometimes been viewed by critics as a modernist work. He had associations with fellow Russian writers Leo Tolstoy and Anton Chekhov both mentioned by Gorky in his memoirs.