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- ↑ 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."
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