Twenty-Six and One and Other Stories by Maxim Gorky Fiction Classics Literary Short Stories

<p><strong>From the introduction by Ivan Strannik: The interest of these stories does not lie in the unraveling of an intricate plot.</strong> They are rather fragments of life bits of biography covering some particular period without reaching the limits of a real drama. And these are no more artificially combined than are the events of real life. Everything that he relates Gorky has seen.</p><p>Maxim Gorky is the pen name of Aleksei Maksimovich Peshkov -- orphaned at the age of nine he was raised by his grandmother a story-teller who imprinted on him a love for tales and travel. All of his varied jobs and the places people and situations he encountered on his way can be found in his stories.</p><p>Russian literature which for half a century has abounded in happy surprises has again made manifest its wonderful power of innovation.</p>