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Reproduction of the original: Twenty-Six and One and Other Stories by Maxime Gorky

From the introduction by Ivan Strannik: "The interest of these stories does not lie in the unraveling of an intricate plot. They are rather fragments of life, bits of biography covering some particular period, without reaching the limits of a real drama. And... Read Full Overview

Russian literature, which for half a century has abounded in happy surprises, has again made manifest its wonderful power of innovation. A tramp, Maxime Gorky, lacking in all systematic training, has suddenly forced his way into its sacred domain, and brought thither the fresh... Read Full Overview

"Twenty-Six and One and Other Stories" from Maxim Gorky. Soviet/Russian author founder of the socialist realism literary method and a political activist (1868-1936).

Reproduction of the original: Twenty-Six and One and Other Stories by Maxime Gorky

THERE were twenty-six of us-twenty-six living machines, locked up in a damp cellar, where we patted dough from morning till night, making biscuits and cakes. The windows of our cellar looked out into a ditch, which was covered with bricks grown green from dampness, the window... Read Full Overview

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