The Lower Depths · 1902
A play set among the down-and-out lodgers of a squalid night shelter, where a running argument about hard truth and comforting illusion cuts across their crowded, hopeless lives. One of the best known works of Russian drama, on stage without interruption for over a century.
The Life of Klim Samgin · 1925
A vast epic novel that follows a Russian intellectual as a bystander to some forty years of the country's life, from the 1870s to the revolution. The author's last and largest book, left unfinished at his death.