{"product_id":"2026100008114-secondhand-mother","title":"Mother","description":"\u003cp\u003eEdition: 2nd ed.,\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eCondition remarks:\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cbr\u003eCondition: Good. Jacket: Worn\/faded - minor tears. Page Condition: Yellowed, tanning and foxing. Markings: unmkd. Binding condition: Binding intact. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSet against the turbulent backdrop of pre-revolutionary Russia, Mother chronicles the extraordinary transformation of Pelagea Vlasova — a downtrodden factory worker's widow who is gradually awakened to the revolutionary socialist cause by her son Pavel's growing political radicalism. Maxim Gorky's landmark 1906 novel captures the grinding poverty and simmering class rage of the industrial working class with unflinching realism, presenting a world in which ordinary people are driven to extraordinary acts of defiance against Tsarist oppression.\n\nWidely regarded as a foundational text of Socialist Realism, Mother stands as one of the most politically charged novels of the twentieth century, praised by Lenin himself for its power as a work of revolutionary propaganda. Gorky's prose is unadorned yet deeply humane, grounding grand ideological struggle in the intimate emotional world of a mother's love. The novel's enduring resonance lies in its central question: at what point does a mother's devotion become inseparable from the fight for a more just world?\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Secondhand Stock","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49130694901979,"sku":"2026100008114-SECONDHAND","price":35.0,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0523\/7646\/9701\/files\/c7141cca-8b99-40c1-81e4-dce3806300cb.png?v=1786588697","url":"https:\/\/bookgrocer.com\/products\/2026100008114-secondhand-mother","provider":"Book Grocer","version":"1.0","type":"link"}