sentences:  Gorky described the lives of people in the lowest strata and on the margins of society, revealing their hardships, humiliations, and brutalization.However, he did not come from a working-class family and neither did another prominent writer in the early years after the Russian Revolution of 1917, Alexander Ostrovsky.However, Nikolay Ostrovsky is an important writer, of the early Soviet era, from a working-class family.