1918. Introduction by G.K. Chesterton. 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. Contents: Creatures That Once Were Men; Twenty-six Men and a Girl; Chelkash; My Fellow-Traveller; and On a Raft. See other titles by this author available from Kessinger Publishing.