A Girl and Death

"A Girl and Death" is a 1892 fantasy poem (commonly subtitled in print as "fairy tale") by Maksim Gorky, written in his youth. It was first published in the newspaper Novaya Zhizn in 1917. The poem is best known for Joseph Stalin's inscription on its copy: "This piece is stronger than Goethe's Faust (love defeats death)".

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