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Autobiography was Maxim Gorky's surest talent, but he did not discover it until he was nearly fifty. By that time he had found ways of using his great memory less to preach than to describe.

THE SPECTER—Maxim Gorki—Appleton-Century ($3.50). In 1930 U. S. readers got the first volume of Maxim Gorki’s lengthiest book. The story of Russian pre-Revolutionary intellectual life ...

The structure of Gorky's autobiography presented director Mark Donskoy with his greatest problem. A series of anecdotes, characters, observations, and philosophical reminiscences, the three ...

BYSTANDER—Maxim Gorki—Cape & Smith ($3). Author Maxim Gorki is famed in Europe: in the last three years 2,000,000 copies of his books have been sold in Russia alone. He is little known in the U.