{"product_id":"reminiscences-of-tolstoy-chekhov-and-andreev-9781804271971","title":"Reminiscences of Tolstoy, Chekhov and Andreev","description":"In 1920, Virginia and Leonard Woolf's Hogarth Press published Maxim Gorky's \u003cem\u003eReminiscences of Tolstoy\u003c\/em\u003e 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 Andreev. Almost a hundred years later, \u003cem\u003eReminiscences of Tolstoy, Chekhov and Andreev\u003c\/em\u003e is reissued in a superb new translation by Bryan Karetnyk.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eGorky, Maxim:\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e - \u003cp\u003eMaxim Gorky was born in 1868 in Nizhny Novgorod. After a grim childhood and some years of wandering he began to write stories and by his thirties had become world-famous both for fiction and plays. He became involved in revolutionary activity against the tsarist regime in Russia and had a confused, difficult relationship with the Soviet dictatorship, partly living abroad and yet becoming the USSR's most feted and widely read author. He died in 1936 under suspicious circumstances and Stalin and Molotov were among the bearers of his coffin.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Fitzcarraldo Editions","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51615439880466,"sku":"9781804271971","price":9.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_d3b189d3-87fc-472b-b447-963d5b6aca34.jpg?v=1758096370","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/reminiscences-of-tolstoy-chekhov-and-andreev-9781804271971","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}