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=== ''The Artamonov Business'' (1925) ===
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The novel ''[[The Artamonov Business]]'' (1925) has been regarded as one of Gorky's finest works of fiction: [[Irwin Weil]] has called the novel "perhaps Gorky's best single long work of fiction",<ref>{{Cite book |last=Weil |first=Irwin |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=YFxgAAAAMAAJ&q=delo+artamonovykh |title=Gorky: His Literary Development and Influence on Soviet Intellectual Life |date=1966 |publisher=Random House |language=en}}</ref> while Richard Freeborn calls it Gorky's "best novel".<ref name="corn"/> ''[[Encyclopaedia Britannica]]'' calls ''The Artamonov Business'' "one of his [Gorky's] best novels".<ref>{{cite web | url=https://www.britannica.com/biography/Maxim-Gorky | title=Maxim Gorky &#124; Biography & Books &#124; Britannica }}</ref> [[Geoffrey Grigson]] wrote that "it is like a less sophisticated ''[[Buddenbrooks]]''":<ref>{{Cite book |last=Grigson |first=Geoffrey |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=p2vQAAAAMAAJ |title=The Concise Encyclopedia of Modern World Literature |date=1963 |publisher=Hawthorn Books |language=en}}</ref> it is a chronicle of decline of a family of a pre-revolutionary industrialist family, from the beginning of 1860s to the Revolution of 1917.<ref name="corn"/>