Gorky, Maksim,  1868-1936 <br/><br/>
Twenty-six and One, and Other Stories 
 26 and 1, and Other Stories 

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<br/><br/> Wikipedia page about this book: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Twenty-six_Men_and_a_Girl  Release date is 2004-12-27 
<br/><br/>Twenty-Six and One -- Tchelkache -- Malva. 
<br/><br/>E-text prepared by Al Haines  E-text prepared by Al Haines 
<br/><br/> "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. (This is an automatically generated summary.) 
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<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Index Terms: </label>Russia -- Social life and customs -- Fiction Short stories, Russian -- Translations into English 
<br/><br/><label>LC Class. No.: </label>PG