Leonard Woolf to Lytton Strachey, 1 April 1902: 'I have read nothing [over Easter vacation] except a book by the new -- comparatively -- Russian, Gorki. It is called Foma Gordyeeff & is ultra-Russian, savage & what is better pitiless to sentimentality, though not inhumanly pitiless. For all that I don't like it -- he is too crude & unartistic & has merely baldly told what a number of bored & rather brutal fools would do with their lives. The book is often consequently baldly sordid'.