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Mother

Maxim Gorky1906

Gorky's 1906 novel: in a factory district the beaten, silent mother Nilovna becomes, step by step, a link in the revolutionary chain as her son Pavel joins the strike and the leaflet work. Based on the 1902 Sormovo May Day demonstration, it opens the tradition of socialist realism. The complete English translation was published in the United States from 1907 (pre-1929, US public domain, Project Gutenberg eBook #3783) and is served here as local paginated reading; Chinese translations remain in copyright, so the Chinese side keeps the archive's publisher-PDF external link and bibliographic entries only.

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The English translation is public domain (first published in the United States in 1907) and served here as local paginated reading. Chinese translations remain under copyright; the Chinese side links the archive's publisher-PDF online reading entry only.

English Edition
Mother, anonymous early English translation, US editions from 1907 (Project Gutenberg eBook #3783; served here as local paginated reading)
Chinese Edition
Mother, in Collected Works of Gorky vol. 11, publisher translation (online PDF at the Chinese Marxists Internet Archive; single-volume translations per their copyright pages)
Rights Boundary
Gorky died in 1936, so the Russian original is public domain; the English edition was published in the US before 1929; Chinese translations remain in copyright and no Chinese full text is hosted.
Public source (Project Gutenberg eBook #3783)Chinese publisher-PDF online reading (Chinese Marxists Internet Archive)