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Inspired by real events and centring on the figure of Pelageya Vlasova the mother of the title and her son Pavel, Gorkys masterpiece describes the brutal life of ordinary Russian factory workers in the years leading to the 1905 Revolution and explores t
Mother, by Maxim Gorky, tells the story of revolutionary factory workers.Mother is considered to be the only long work of Gorky on the Russian revolutionary movement; however, of all his novels, it is possibly the least successful. Nevertheless, it remain
Coloured by poverty and horrifying brutality, Gorky's childhood equipped him to understand - in a way denied to a Tolstoy or a Turgenev - the life of the ordinary Russian. After his father, a paperhanger and upholsterer, died of cholera, five-year-old
In 1920, Virginia and Leonard Woolfs Hogarth Press published Maxim Gorkys Reminiscences of Tolstoy and it was recognized almost immediately as one of the few masterpieces of modern biography. It is one of the most remarkable biographical pieces ever writt
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
Mother is a novel written by Maxim Gorky in 1906 about revolutionary factory workers. It was first published, in English, in Appleton's Magazine in 1906, then in Russian in 1907. The work was translated into many languages, and was made into a number
A collection of short fiction by one of the most eminent Russian author, Maxim Gorky. Born as Alexei Maximovich Peshkov, this great man was a Russian writer and political activist. He was nominated five times for the Nobel Prize in Literature. Gorky's