Dead Souls
by Nikolai Gogol | 
Cancer Ward
by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn | 
Pnin
by Vladimir Nabokov | 
A Hero of Our Time
by Mikhail Lermontov | 
The First Circle
by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn | 
Oblomov
by Ivan Goncharov | 
Laughter in the Dark
by Vladimir Nabokov | 
Despair
by Vladimir Nabokov | 
The Real Life of Sebastian Knight
by Vladimir Nabokov | 
Mirgorod
by Nikolai Gogol | 
The Gift
by Vladimir Nabokov | 
Fathers and Children
by Ivan Turgenev | 
King, Queen, Knave
by Vladimir Nabokov | 
Transparent Things
by Vladimir Nabokov | 
Mary
by Vladimir Nabokov | 
A Gentle Creature and Other Stories
by Fyodor Dostoyevsky | 
Glory
by Vladimir Nabokov | 
The Eye
by Vladimir Nabokov | 
Home of the Gentry
by Ivan Turgenev | 
Jamilia
by Chingiz Aitmatov |
1907. Maxim Gorky, pseudonym of Alexei Maksimovich Peshkov, Soviet novelist, playwright and essayist, who was a founder of social realism. Although known principally as a writer, he was closely associated with the tumultuous revolutionary period of his own country. The Mother, one of his best-known works, is the story of the radicalization of an uneducated woman that was later taken as a model for the Socialist Realist novel, and his autobiographical masterpiece Childhood.