TY - BOOK AU - Gorky, Maxim. TI - Ma (Translated) SN - 81-83931405 U1 - 891.433 PB - New Sadhna Pocket Books KW - Fiction KW - Hindi Literature KW - Historical fiction KW - Novel KW - Revolution KW - Russian Literature-Translated N2 - 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 ER -