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/ˈɡɔɹki/
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NOUN
- Russian writer of plays and novels and short stories; noted for his depiction of social outcasts
- an industrial city in the European part of Russia; birthplace of Maksim Gorky
How To Use Gorky In A Sentence
- Gorky's drawings are so rich, so various, so complex, and often so mysterious that they must be studied with rigorous concentration if we are to tease out their secrets.
- Obliged to work for his living from the age of 8, Gorky roamed all over Russia.
- The introduction - oddly named as it contains many major spoilers - is a welcome chance to hear the effervescent, elfin man discuss his themes and modifications to Gorky's work.
- Gorky was often the victim of his grandfather's tyranny.
- After Sakharov criticized the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan, he was banished in 1980 to Gorky, now known as Nizhny Novgorod. Activist Bonner, Sakharov's Widow, Dies at 88
- Gorky's mother remarried but the stepfather was as bestial as the rest of the family.
- There is not a single beach, promontory, belvedere or ruin that does not teem with literature, from Augustus to Gorky’.
- The evocation of the deadly cloud-cuckoo-land of Russia during Stalin's final days will remind many of Gorky Park and Darkness at Noon, but the novel remains Smith's alone, completely original and absolutely satisfying. Child 44 by Tom Rob Smith: Book summary
