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MAXIM GORKI
A NIGHT S LODGING
WE
in America are conversant with
tramp literature. A number of
writers of considerable note have de
scribed what is commonly called the
underworld, among them Josiah Flynt and Jack
London, who have ably interpreted the life and
psychology of the outcast. But with all due re
spect for their ability, it must be said that, after
all, they wrote only as onlookers, as observers.
They were not tramps themselves, in the real sense
of the word. In
"
The Children of the Abyss
"
Jack London relates that when he stood in the
breadline, he had money, a room in a good hotel,
and a change of linen at hand. He was therefore
not an integral part of the underworld, of the
homeless and hopeless.
Never before has anyone given such a true,
realistic picture of the social depths as Maxim
Gorki, himself a denizen of the underworld from
his early childhood. At the age of eight he ran
away from his poverty-stricken, dismal home, and
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