The present volume has been conceived first of all as a sketch towards a new biography. It contains 177 letters, written between 1889 and Gorky's death in 1936, and selected so as to allow Gorky to tell the story of his own life and reveal his hopes and fears, his observations and preoccupations over a literary career which spanned almost fifty years. Gorky's letters are of considerable interest on a number of levels: biographically; as representations...

This book is the first of a 4-part work about the life of one Clim Sanghin, a member of the Russian gentry living in pre-Revolution Russia. The time period of "Bystander" is 1880 through about 1905 and we are shown, through a somewhat absurdist perspective, the rot and dissassociation from reality at the core of this class of Russian society.

This is the first complete publication in the West of the great operatic basso's life as he told it to his celebrated contemporary, Maxim Gorky. - Book Jacket.

Drama. Plays are included.