Editing Maxim Gorky (section)

=== ''My Childhood. In the World. My Universities'' (1915, 1916, 1923) ===
{{main|Autobiographies of Maxim Gorky}}
Gorky's [[Autobiographies of Maxim Gorky|trilogy of autobiographical prose works]], ''My Childhood'' (1915), ''In the World'' (1916) and ''My Universities'' (1923) is regarded by contemporary critics and scholars as one of his major writings;<ref name="corn"/> according to ''[[Encyclopaedia Britannica]]'', "considered to constitute one of the finest Russian autobiographies, the books reveal Gorky to be an acute observer of detail with great descriptive powers";<ref>{{cite web | url=https://www.britannica.com/topic/My-Childhood | title=My Childhood &#124; Summary & Trilogy &#124; Britannica }}</ref> '''Britannica'' writes that the trilogy "contains many messages, which Gorky now tended to imply rather than preach openly: protests against motiveless cruelty, continued emphasis on the importance of toughness and self-reliance, and musings on the value of hard work."<ref>{{cite web | url=https://www.britannica.com/biography/Maxim-Gorky | title=Maxim Gorky &#124; Biography & Books &#124; Britannica }}</ref> The trilogy was praised by Gorky's contemporaries: [[D. S. Mirsky]], for example, wrote that it made Gorky a "great realist"; he also described the trilogy as "one of the strangest autobiographies ever written" for being "about everyone except himself [Gorky]. His person is only the pretext round which to gather a wonderful gallery of portraits."<ref>{{cite book
 |author               = D. S. Mirsky
 |year                 = 1925
 |title                = Contemporary Russian Literature, 1881–1925
 |series = Contemporary literature series
 |publisher            = A. A. Knopf
 |url                  = https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=mdp.39015000668403&view=1up&format=plaintext&seq=134&skin=2021&q1=Gorky
 |access-date          = }}</ref>