Twenty-six Men and a Girl

Back in high school, my teacher listed the step-by-step plot development of Guy de Maupassant’s The Necklace, telling us this was a perfectly constructed short-story. For years I have been looking for comparable perfection in a short-story. I found it! Maxim Gorky’s Twenty-Six Men and a Girl is simpl......more

Absolutely amazing !!. One of the best short story collections I've ever read in my life. Maxim Gorky's tales are so vivid and full of life. Each of these stories tells us a great deal about how much these people have suffered to earn a living, coz most of his characters represents the working class......more

An exceptional short story on social realism and lost ideals. This is Maxim Gorky's most famous short story and reveals the interplay of collective frustrations about social iniquity against the prejudices of that era and how these men too become victims of a similar kind of prejudice, when faced wi......more

Being a limited fan of fiction, I could not get into this work as I had hoped. In its native tongue, it would be different for its readers, I am sure. For fiction (and historical fiction) readers who love tales involving the sea, action, etc., this may be just the piece of cake for which you are sea......more

Twenty-Six Men and a Girl" is a socio-psychological exploration of the oppressive conditions of industrial labor, where Gorky intricately dissects the paradox of human desire and alienation within a stratified, capitalist framework. The narrative unfolds within the claustrophobic confines of a candl......more