Mother

<p> 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</p><p> peasant woman who faces domestic assaults by her husband. Mother raises the suppressed voices</p><p> of the working-class people and depicts the power of dignity of an individual. Written in 1906 the</p><p> book still stirs the emotional journey to the soul showing the protective and selfless concerns of a</p><p> mother for the crushed spirit of her people.<br></p><p> </p><p> Born of the people and having experienced in his own person their sufferings and their misery he</p><p> was enabled by his extraordinary genius to voice their grievances and their aspirations in the book</p><p> that has stood the test of time.</p><p> </p>