This author wrote a play in which the Actor hangs himself after spending some time in Vassilissa andKostilyoff's house with a thief, a gambler, and Luka.
This author wrote a play in which a man starts a fight over another man having beaten his sister, but thefight is interrupted by a character who gets on top of a stove and starts yawning; that character had earlierdeclared that "all are equal" after another man stated, "We're all of usÂ… nothing but the bare naked man."This author created a character who fasts for eight days in prison after being insulted in jail and participatesin banned-book-reading sessions in Pavel's house that eventually lead to Pavel's arrest, which saddens (*)Pelegaya. This author wrote a play in which the Actor hangs himself after spending some time in Vassilissa andKostilyoff's house with a thief, a gambler, and Luka. This author of The Mother used the socialist-realist style ofliterature in a work about a poor house. For 10 points, name this Russian author of The Lower Depths.
This author wrote a play in which a man starts a fight over another man having beaten his sister, but thefight is interrupted by a character who gets on top of a stove and starts yawning; that character had earlierdeclared that "all are equal" after another man stated, "We're all of usÂ… nothing but the bare naked man."This author created a character who fasts for eight days in prison after being insulted in jail and participatesin banned-book-reading sessions in Pavel's house that eventually lead to Pavel's arrest, which saddens (*)Pelegaya.
Maxim Gorky [or Alexei Maximovich Peshkov]