The ninth volume includes works written by M. Bitter in 19091912. Of these, the story “The City of Okurov” and “The Life of Matvey Kozhemyakin” were included in previous collections of works by the writer .. These works have been repeatedly edited by M. Gorky, for the last time - in the preparation of the collection of works in the publication of the Book, 1923-1927 . The work included in this "Big Love" was not completed by the author and was known to readers only from a small passage that appeared in print before the October Revolution. In this edition, this work, adjoined in its content directly to the "Okurov cycle", is printed for the first time as fully as the surviving manuscripts of M. allow. Gorky . http://ruslit. traumlibrary. net