Children of the Sun by Maxim Gorky
Drama Classics: The World's Great Plays at a Great Little Price A Chekhovian family drama, first staged in Russia in 1905. In a prophetic echo of the coming revolution, Maxim Gorky's play Children of the Sun looks at the lives of the privileged intelligentsia and of the workers, advocating an alliance between the two. Children of the Sun was first staged at the Moscow Arts Theatre in 1905. This editon of the play in the Nick Hern Books Drama Classics series is translated and introduced by Stephen Mulrine.
Alexei Maximovich Peshkov (1868–1936), primarily known as Maxim Gorky, was a Russian and Soviet writer, a founder of the socialist realism literary method, and a political activist. He was also a five-time nominee for the Nobel Prize in Literature. Gorky's works include: The Lower Depths (1902), Twenty-six Men and a Girl (1899), The Song of the Stormy Petrel (1901), My Childhood (1913–1914), Mother (1906), Summerfolk (1904) and Children of the Sun (1905). Stephen Mulrine (1937–2020) was a Glasgow-born poet and playwright who wrote extensively for radio and television, and published many translations, including English translations of plays in Russian by Chekhov, Gogol and Gorky, as well as translations of plays by Ibsen, Molière, Pirandello, Strindberg and others.
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| ISBN 13 | 9781854594297 |
| ISBN 10 | 185459429X |
| Title | Children of the Sun |
| Author | Maxim Gorky |
| Series | Drama Classics |
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| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | Nick Hern Books |
| Year published | 2000-04-28 |
| Number of pages | 128 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
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