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“Twenty-Six Men and a Girl” is a short story written by the Russian writer Maxim Gorky in 1899, and is one of his most famous. It is a pioneering tale of social realism (the story predates Soviet socialist realism), and is a lament of lost ideals. Twenty-six men slave away in a cellar, making kringles, looked down on by all around them, including the bread bakers. Their only joy in their lives is the sixteen-year-old Tanya, who visits them every morning to collect kringles. A new bread baker, a soldier, visits the kringle makers. He befriends them, and boasts of his success with women. The kringle bakers bet him that he will not be able to seduce their beloved Tanya … and watch in an agony of tension as he takes on the bet.
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About Maxim Gorky
Maxim Gorky (1868–1936), whose real name was Alexey Maximovich Pyeshkov, is probably the best-known late-nineteenth-century Russian fiction writer among the English-speaking world. His pen name translates as Maxim the Bitter, an attitude reflected in many of his works.
About Cathy Dobson
Cathy Dobson is the author of Planet Germany and a narrator of audiobooks.