Twenty-six and One, and Other Stories
by Maxim Gorky
- First published
- 1902
- Reading level
- Easy
- Price
- Free
About the book
"Twenty-six and One, and Other Stories" by Maksim Gorky is a collection published in 1899. The title story follows twenty-six men toiling in a cellar bakery, scorned by those around them. Their sole comfort is sixteen-year-old Tanya, who visits each morning. When a boastful soldier arrives and disrupts their fragile refuge, their devotion is tested. This cruelly realistic yet poetic tale explores beauty, disillusionment, and human dignity among society's downtrodden, earning recognition as one of Gorky's finest early works.
- Russia
- Short stories, Russian
Updated September 2026. Public domain in the USA. Text and summary from Project Gutenberg eBook #14480. Twenty-six and One, and Other Stories on Wikipedia.
