A collection of letters is also essentially a biography here of a man recognized as one of the twentieth century s leading thinkers. By translating and presenting for the first time many letters previously overlooked by other volumes, this collection greatly expands what the English-speaking world knows of him, both politically and personally. These extracts from his pre-prison correspondencewith his wife and her sister, international communist leaders, and fellow Italian revolutionariesshow his most important ideas at their beginnings, and give a well rounded picture of Gramsci s...