The complete online text of Twenty-six and One and Other Stories by Maxim Gorky.

The cultural and political activities of the Russian author Maxim Gorky (1868-1936) made him known in the Soviet Union as the greatest Russian literary figure of the 20th century. Maxim Gorky, whose real name was Aleksei Maximovich Peshkov, was born on M...

Maksim Gor'ky initially achieved renown as a short-story writer and went on to become a prominent novelist, dramatist, and memoirist. During his career, which straddled the final decades of the old Russian Empire and the first decades of the Soviet Union...