Maxim Gorky bibliography

Portrait of Maxim Gorky by Mikhail Nesterov, 1901

This is a bibliography of the works of Maxim Gorky.

Novels

• Orphan Paul (Luckless Pavel; Горемыка Павел, 1894)
• Foma Gordeyev (Фома Гордеев, 1899, also translated as Foma Gordyeeff and The Man Who Was Afraid)
• Three of Them (Трое, 190, also translated as The Three and Three Men)
• Mother (Мать, 1906)
• The Life of a Useless Man (Жизнь ненужного человека, 1908, also translated as The Spy: A Story of a Superfluous Man)
• A Confession (Исповедь, 1908)
• Городок Окуров, 1908
• The Life of Matvei Kozhemyakin (Жизнь Матвея Кожемякина, 1910)
• The Artamonov Business (Дело Артамоновых, 1925)
• The Life of Klim Samgin (Жизнь Клима Самгина, 1927-1936). Published in English as Forty Years: The Life of Clim Samghin
  • Bystander (1930, Part 1)
  • The Magnet (1931, Part 2)
  • Other Fires (1931, Part 3)
  • The Specter (1938, Part 4)

Novellas

• Konovalov (Коновалов, 1897)
• The Orlovs (Супруги Орловы, 1897)
• Creatures That Once Were Men (Бывшие люди, 1897)
• Varenka Olesova (Варенька Олесова, 1898)
• Лето, 1909

Short stories

• "Makar Chudra" (Макар Чудра, 1892)
• "Emelyan Pilyai" (Емельян Пилай, 1893)
• "The Siskin That Lied and the Woodpecker That Loved the Truth" (О чиже, который лгал и о дятле – любителе истины, 1893)
• "Old Arkhip and Lyonka" (Дед Архип и Лёнька, 1893)
• "My Fellow Traveller" (Мой спутник, 1894)
• "About a Little Boy and a Little Girl Who did not Freeze to Death. A Christmas Story (О мальчике и девочке, которые не замёрзли. Святочный рассказ, 1894)
• "The Song of the Falcon" (Песня о Соколе, 1894)
• "One Autumn Night" (Однажды осенью, 1895)
• "A Mistake" (Ошибка, 1895)
• "Conclusion" (Вывод, 1895)
• "Old Izergil" (Старуха Изергиль, 1895)
• "Chelkash" (Челкаш, 1895)
• "The Affair of the Clasps" (Дело с застёжками, 1896)
• "On a Raft" (На плотах, 1896)
• "The Khan and His Son" (Хан и его сын, 1896)
• "Malva" (Мальва, 1897)
• "Boles" (Болесь, 1897, translated also as "Her Lover")
• "Comrades" (Товарищи, 1897)
• "In the Steppe" (В степи, 1897)
• "The Green Kitten" (1897)
• "Mischief-Maker" (Проходимец, 1897)
• "Goltva Fair" (Ярмарка в Голтве, 1897)
• "Mischievous Lad" (Озорник, 1897)
• "Boredom" (Скуки ради, 1897)
• "Heartache" (1897)
• "An Adulterous Wife" (1897)
• "An Insolent Man" (1897)
• "Chums" (Дружки, 1898)
• "A Rolling Stone" (1898)
• "Cain and Artyom" (Каин и Артём, 1898)
• "A Reader" (1898)
• "Twenty-six Men and a Girl" (Двадцать шесть и одна, 1899)
• "Waiting for the Ferry" (1899)
• "Red" (1899)
• "Concerning the Devil" (1899)
• "The Hungry Ones" (1899)
• "Commonplace People" (1903)
• "Soldiers" (1905)
• "Prison" (Тюрьма, 1905)
• "Three Days" (1905)
• "Bukoyomov" (Букоёмов, Карл Иванович, 1905)
• "The Story of Filipp Vasilyevich" (Рассказ Филиппа Васильевича, 1905)
• "The Kingdom of Tedium" (1906)
• "Mob" (1906)
• "An Incident From the Life of Makar" (1912)
• "In Old Russia" (1913)
• "The Master" (1913)
• "First Love" (1923)
• "The Birth of a Man" (1923)
• "In a Mountain Defile" (1923)
• "Kalinin" (1923)
• "The Deadman" (1923)
• "Hodgepodge" (1923)
• "An Evening at Shamov's" (1923)
• "An Evening at Panashkin's" (1923)
• "An Evening at Sukmomyatkin's" (1923)
• "Light-Grey and Light-Blue" (1923)
• "A Book" (1923)
• "How They Composed a Song" (1923)
• "Bird's Sin" (1923)
• "A Silver Ten-Copeck Piece" (1923)
• "Happiness" (1923)
• "A Hero" (1923)
• "A Clown" (1923)
• "Onlookers" (1923)
• "Timka" (1923)
• "A Light-Minded Man" (1923)
• "Strasti-Mordasti" (1923)
• "By Changul River" (1923)
• "A Jolly Chap" (1923)
• "A Romantic" (1923)
• "A Little Girl" (1923)
• "A Fire" (1923)
• "A Theft" (1923)
• "Bandits" (1923)
• "Complaints" (1923)
• Stories of 1922-1924 (Рассказы 1922—1924 годов, 1925)
  • "The Hermit" (Отшельник, 1922)
  • "Unrequited Love" (Tale of Unrequited Love, A Story of Unrequited Love, Рассказ о безответной любви, 1923)
  • "The Story of a Novel" (Рассказ об одном романе, 1923)
  • "Karamora" (Карамора, 1923)
  • "An Enigma" (An Incident, Анекдот, 1923)
  • "The Story of a Hero" (Рассказ о герое, 1924)
  • "The Rehearsal" (Репетиция, 1924)
  • "The Sky-Blue Life" (Голубая жизнь, 1924)
  • "A Story About the Unusual" (Рассказ о необыкновенном, 1924)
• "Murderers" (1925)

Plays

• The Philistines (translated also as Smug Citizens and The Petty Bourgeois; Мещане, 1901)
• The Lower Depths (На дне, 1902)
• Summerfolk (also, Vacationers; Дачники, 1904)
• Children of the Sun (Дети солнца, 1905)
• Barbarians (Варвары, 1905)
• Enemies (Враги, 1906)
• The Last Ones (Последние, 1908)
• Children (translated also as The Reception, Дети, 1910)
• Queer People (Чудаки, 1910)
• Vassa Zheleznova (Васса Железнова, 1910/1936)
• The Zykovs (Зыковы, 1913)
• Counterfeit Money (Фальшивая монета, 1913)
• The Old Man (also: The Judge, Старик, 1915, revised 1922, 1924)
• Workaholic Slovotekov (Работяга Словотеков, 1920)
• Somov and Others (Сомов и другие, 1930)
• Yegor Bulychov and Others (Егор Булычев и другие, 1932)
• Dostigayev and Others (Достигаев и другие, 1933)

Poetry

• "A Maiden and Death" (Девушка и смерть, 1892 [fairytale in verse])
• "The Song of the Stormy Petrel" (Песня о Буревестнике, 1901)
• "A Ballad of Countess Helene de Corsi" (1923)

Short-story collections

• City of the Yellow Devil (Город Жёлтого дьявола, 1906)
• Tales of Italy (Сказки об Италии, 1911–1913)
• Through Russia (По Руси, 1923)
• Stories 1922-1924 (Рассказы 1922—1924 годов, 1925)

Autobiography

• My Childhood (Autobiography Part I, 1913–1914); In the World (Autobiography Part II, 1916); My Universities (Autobiography Part III, 1923)
• Fragments from My Diary (1923)

Non-fiction

• "The Black Hundred Pogromists" (not dated)
• "Russian Tsar" (1905)
• "Magnificent France" (1905)
• "My Interviews" (1905)
• "Fair France" (1905)
• "One of the Kings of the Republic" (1906)
• "Pillar of Morality" (1906)
• "The Masters of Life" (1906)
• "A Priest of Morals" (1906)
• "On the Jews" (1906)
• "On Zionism" (1907)
• "January 9th" (1907)
• "Cynicism" (1908)
• Self-Taught Writers (1911)
• "The Karamazov Spirit" (1913)
• "On the Bolsheviki" (1918)
• Untimely Thoughts (1918)
• My Recollections of Tolstoy (1919)
• "Leonid Andreyev" (1922)
• The Times of Korolenko (1923)
• "N. E. Karonin-Petropavlovsky" (1923)
• "A. P. Chekhov" (1923)
• "Leo Tolstoy" (1923)
• "M. M. Kotsyubinsky" (1923)
• "N. A. Bugrov" (1924)
• About S. A. Tolstaya (1924)
• Days with Lenin (1924)
• V. Lenin (1925)
• "Sergei Yesenin"
• "N. F. Annensky" (1924)
• "About Garin-Mikhailovsky" (1925)
• "About Cockroaches" (1925)
• "Notes of a Leader" (1925)
• "L. B. Krasin"
• "Ten Years" (1927)
• "New and Old" (1927)
• "My Greetings" (1927)
• "To Anonymous and Pseudonymous Writers" (1927)
• "Our Achievements" (1928)
• "Culture" (1928)
• "To Mechanical Citizens of the Soviet Union" (1928)
• "The Red Army" (1928)
• "Benefits of Literacy" (1928)
• "Literary Beginners" (1928)
• "Literature of the Peoples of the USSR" (1928)
• On Guard for the Soviet Union (1930)
• "Women" (1930)
• "Wise Folk" (1930)
• "Humanists" (1930)
• On Literature (1930)
• "A Hurricane Destroying the Old World" (1931)
• "Facts of Life" (1931)
• "Under the Red Banner" (1931)
• "To Participants in the Civil War" (1931)
• Talks on the Craft (1931)
• Literary Technique (1932)
• Socialist Realism (1933)
• "Prose" (1933)
• "On Plays" (1933)
• Soviet Literature (1934)
• "Proletarian Humanism" (1934)
• A History of Woman (1934)
• "Literary Curiosities" (1934)
• The I.V. Stalin White Sea – Baltic Sea Canal (1934)
• Culture and the People (1935)
• "The New Man" (1935)
• "On the Issue of Demons" (1935)

External links

• Works by or about Maxim Gorky at the Internet Archive