This volume features FOUR NOVELS by Russian and Soviet writer, MAXIM GORKY, a founder of the socialist realism literary method and a political activist. He had an association with fellow Russian writers Leo Tolstoy and Anton Chekhov; Gorky would later write his memoirs on both of them. The four novels included in this volume are some of his earlier work, some very hard to find material; and it also included his probably best known work, the novel MOTHER. The works included are: