«An Autumn Night» is a short story by Russian writer Maksim Gorky. Gorky was a Russian and Soviet writer, a founder of the socialist realism literary method and a political activist. «I found myself one autumn night in an uncomfortable and awkward position. I had just arrived in a town where I did not know a single creature; I had not a penny in my pocket, nor a corner where to lay my head. For a day or two I kept things going by disposing of all such articles of clothing as were not absolutely indispensable...»