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Twenty-Six Men and a Girl, and Other Stories (Short Story Index Reprint Series) (English and Russian Edition)
Author(s): Maksim Gorky
ISBN: 0836932528 ISBN-13: 9780836932522

Format: Hardcover   Pages: 198 Pub. Date: 1969-06-01 Publisher: Books for Libraries
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Twenty-Six Men and a Girl, and Other Stories (Short Story Index Reprint Series) (English and Russian Edition)

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated.1915 Excerpt: ... on the stone pavement, the dull thud of wood, the creaking of the carts plying for hire, the whistles of the steamers, piercingly shrill and hoarsely roaring, the shouts of dock labourers, sailors, and customs officers,--all these sounds melt into the deafening symphony of the working day, that hovering uncertainly hangs over the harbour, as though afraid to float upwards and be lost. And fresh waves of sound continually rise up from the earth to join it; deep, grumbling, sullen reverberations setting all around quaking; shrill, menacing notes that pierce the ear and the dusty, sultry air. The granite, the iron, the wood, the harbour pavement, the ships and the men--all swelled the mighty strains of this frenzied, impassioned hymn to Mercury. But the voices of men, scarcely audible in it, were weak and ludicrous. And the men, too, themselves, the first source of all that uproar, were ludicrous and pitiable: their little figures, dusty, tattered, nimble, bent under the weight of goods that lay on their backs, under the weight of cares that drove them hither and thither, in the clouds of dust, in the sea of sweltering heat and din, were so trivial and small in comparison with the colossal iron monsters, the mountains of bales, the thundering railway I trucks and all that they had created. Their own creation had enslaved them, and stolen away their individual life. As they lay letting off steam, the heavy giant steamers whistled or hissed,-.or seemed to heave deep sighs, and in every sound that came from them could be heard the mocking note of ironical contempt for the grey, dusty shapes of men, crawling about their decks and filling their deep holds with the fruits of their slavish toil. Ludicrous and pitiable were the long strings of dock labourers bearing o...

 
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