Bystander (Paperback)

(1930) Maxim Gorky, pseudonym of Alexei Maksimovich Peshkov, Soviet novelist, playwright and essayist, who was a founder of social realism. Although known principally as a writer, he was closely associated with the tumultuous revolutionary period of his own country. The Bystander is a separate volume of one of Gorky's longer works, The Life of Klim Samgin, an unfinished cycle of novels. See other titles by this author available from Kessinger Publishing.