Front matter
Reading edition
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Frontispiece: "With somber faces ... their muscles stiff from insufficient sleep."

MOTHER
By MAXIM GORKY

WITH EIGHT ILLUSTRATIONS BY SIGMUND DE IVANOWSKI
NEW YORK AND LONDON D. APPLETON AND COMPANY 1911
Copyright, 1906, 1907, by D. APPLETON AND COMPANY