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The famous novel of revolutionary conversion and struggle. This novel of Russia before the Revolution is without question the masterpiece of Gorky, Russia's greatest living writer. Into one passionate, astonishing book has been gathered the spirit of the terrifying struggle against... Read Full Overview

Mother' is the immortal classic of Maxim Gorky, one of the world's best-loved writers. It is the story of the radicalization of an uneducated woman. From her dull peasant existence into active participation in her people's struggle for justice. Through her work she frees herself... Read Full Overview

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Mother' is the immortal classic of Maxim Gorky, one of the world's best-loved writers. It is the story of the radicalization of an uneducated woman. From her dull peasant existence into active participation in her people's struggle for justice. Through her work she frees herself... Read Full Overview

Every day the factory whistle bellowed forth its shrill, roaring, trembling noises into the smoke-begrimed and greasy atmosphere of the workingmen's suburb; and obedient to the summons of the power of steam, people poured out of little gray houses into the street. With somber... Read Full Overview

" ... a broad and generalized picture of life in Russia on the eve of the Revolution of 1905"--P. [4] of cover.

La madre es una de las novelas m s conocidas y logradas de la literatura de todos los tiempos. En ella Gorki no se limit a hacer una descripci n localista de la miseria en que se ve a sumido el proletariado urbano de su pa s, sino que compuso un canto al ansia humana de emancipaci... Read Full Overview

Alexei Maximovich Peshkov (Russian 28 March 1868 - 18 June 1936), primarily known as Maxim (Maksim) Gorky , was a Russian and Soviet writer, a founder of the socialist realism literary method and a political activist. Around fifteen years before success as a writer, he frequently... Read Full Overview

This novel tells the story of the common proletariat who protested against the czar and the capitalists which eventually led to the October Revolution. Pelageya is the wife of a factory worker who ignores the political upheaval in her country in favor of caring for her personal... Read Full Overview

Ce roman d crit l' volution intellectuelle d'une m re de famille ouvri re dans un faubourg industriel de la Russie pr -r volutionnaire, dont le fils Pavel (ou Paul) est militant socialiste. D'abord, effray e par les dangereuses id es de son fils, qu'elle ne comprend pas, elle... Read Full Overview

This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it.

This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely... Read Full Overview

The Mother (also known as Mat') is a novel written by Maxim Gorky in 1906 about revolutionary factory workers. The work was translated into many languages, and was made into a number of films. The German playwright Bertolt Brecht and his collaborators based their 1932 play The... Read Full Overview

Maxim Gorky, the founder of social realism, was a Russian writer who pioneered literary style through his magnum opus, Mother. It is the story of the radicalization of an uneducated, hard-working

peasant woman who faces domestic assaults by her husband. Mother raises... Read Full Overview