Mother by Maxim Gorky - Paperback

Paperback novel by Maxim Gorky. Hailed as one of the most influential novels of the twentieth century. Mother tells the story of Pavel and his mother Nilovna in pre-revolutionary Russia. Nilovna grieves the death of her alcoholic husband, then loves her son only and wants to help her child, but, the love for a son turns into a serious inquiry into the role of women, the state of the proletariat and their possible rise to claim self-esteem in a bourgeois society.