num_pages: 285
description: 1907. Maxim Gorky, pseudonym of Alexei Maksimovich Peshkov, Soviet novelist, playwright and essayist, who was a founder of social realism. Although known principally as a writer, he was closely associated with the tumultuous revolutionary period of his own country. The Mother, one of his best-known works, is the story of the radicalization of an uneducated woman that was later taken as a model for the Socialist Realist novel, and his autobiographical masterpiece Childhood.
language: English
title: Mother
titlecomplete: Mother
characters: Mother, Pavel Vlasov
genres: 20th Century, Russia, Historical Fiction, Politics, Novels, Literature, Roman, Russian Literature, Classics, Fiction
ratings_count: 16428
awards: awardedAt: 1483257600000
name: Hurston/Wright Legacy Award
category: Fiction, awardedAt: 1483257600000
name: NAACP Image Award
category: Fiction
publisher: Echo Library