Maxim Gorky

In 1920, Virginia and Leonard Woolf's Hogarth Press published Maxim Gorky's Reminiscences of Tolstoy, and it was recognised 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...