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\npeasant woman who faces domestic assaults by her husband. Mother raises the suppressed voices\nof the working-class people and depicts the power of dignity of an individual. Written in 1906, the\nbook still stirs the emotional journey to the soul, showing the protective and selfless concerns of a\nmother for the crushed spirit of her people. \n\nBorn of the people, and having experienced in his own person their sufferings and their misery, he\nwas enabled by his extraordinary genius to voice their grievances and their aspirations in the book\nthat has stood the test of time.