Mother
by Maxim Gorky
1907 / 400 pages
rating  8.5 / Russian classic (socialist realism)
(but I got about 1/2 way)

Before I started reading this I looked up some information about Gorky.  I know it’s not always appropriate to do this sort of thing and I rarely do it with contemporary authors,  but with the classics I think it’s different.

I knew Gorky was a prominent writer and as such a vital part of the Russian Revolution; he knew and was honored by Lenin.  Beyond that, although I’d read about him before, I remembered nothing.  So I refreshed my memory >>>>MORE>>>>