Three of Them

Three of Them (Russian Трое "Three") is a 1901 novel by Maksim Gorky. The plot concerns Ilya Lunyev, a boy from an urban slum, who enters the middle-class milieu only to be disillusioned to find the same moral corruption.^[1]

References

↑ F. M. Borras Maxim Gorky the writer: an interpretation 1967 p.104 "The hero of The Three of Them, Ilya Lunyev, is a boy who grows up among the filth and brutality of an urban slum, conceives a dream of middle-class respectability as the peak of human happiness, and achieves his dream through successful commercial activity, only to perceive that the social sphere to which he had so fervently aspired is morally corrupt."

Works by Maxim Gorky

Poetry	"The Song of the Stormy Petrel"

Plays	The Philistines The Lower Depths Summerfolk Children of the Sun

Short fiction	"Twenty-six Men and a Girl"

Novels	Three of Them The Mother

Related articles	Maxim Gorky Literature Institute Sreda Znanie

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