Reminiscences of Tolstoy, Chekhov and Andreyev

In 1920, Virginia and Leonard Woolf`s Hogarth Press published Maxim Gorky`s Reminiscences of Tolstoy and it was recognized almost immediately as one of the few masterpieces of modern biography. `It is one of the most remarkable biographical pieces ever written,` writes Leonard Woolf in his autobiography. `It makes one hear, see, feel Tolstoy and his character as if one were sitting in the same room - his greatness and his littleness, his entrancing and infuriating complexity, his titanic and poetic personality, his superb humour.` In 1934, the book was expanded to include Gorky`s memoirs of two other great Russian literary figures, Anton Chekhov and Leonid Andreyev. Almost a hundred years later, Reminiscences of Tolstoy, Chekhov and Andreyev is reissued in a superb new translation by Bryan Karetnyk.