What is Mother (novel)?
'''''Mother''''' (''{{lang-ru|Mat'}}'') is a [[novel]] [[writer|written]] by [[Maxim Gorky]] in [[1906]].<ref>Alexander Kremer, ''Self and Society'' (Amsterdam: Rodopi, 2009), p. 103</ref> It is about an [[:en:wikt:uneducated|uneducated]] woman who began to take on [[wikt:extreme|extreme]] [[political]] beliefs.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/88043.Mother |title=Mother by Maxim Gorky |author=<!--Staff writer(s); no by-line.--> |date=2014 |website= |publisher=Goodreads Inc |accessdate=1 December 2014}}</ref> It was [[Translation|translated]] into many [[language]]s, many [[movie]]s are also inspired by it. *''Mother'' (1926), directed by [[Vsevolod Pudovkin]] *''Mother'' (1956), directed by [[Mark Donskoy]] *''Mother'' (1990), directed by [[Gleb Panfilov]] The play ''The Mother'' by [[German people|German]] [[playwright]] [[Bertolt Brecht]] is based on this novel. ==References== {{reflist}} {{italic title}} {{lit-stub}} [[Category:Russian novels]] [[Category:1906 books]]