Maxim Gorky

The varied influences on AWE 's passion for folk and fairy tales include her uncle Henry Strachey , Rudyard Kipling , and Maxim Gorky . In her memoir she comments that, since World War...

Reviews were mixed (one pronounced occasionally ponderous as well as poignant and personal).Josephine Hendin in the Saturday Review found the novel politically cliché'd and its resolution improbable. AW responded with an indignant...

The Press, which began as therapy and for the purpose of publishing the works of its owners, grew into a major engine of modern culture and thought. Its political interests were served by enlightened...

The organisation was set up in 1935, at the end of the First International Congress of Writers held in the Salle de la Mutualité in Paris. It proposed to be a more partisan and...

During the first half of the twentieth century, CG translated over seventy volumes of Russian literature. At the expense of her eyesight, she translated the major works of Tolstoy , Gorky , and others, and...

This event was held in Moscow and convened by Maxim Gorky . Topics discussed included the formation of Socialist Realism and Russian children's literature.

This volume has much less about her intellectual development than its predecessor, but MA mentions that as her work began to dabble on the verge of criminality she discovered the Russian writers, beginning with...