ماکسیم گورکی

Twenty-Six Men and a Girl / بیست‌و‌شش مرد و یک دختر

There were six and twenty of us — six and twenty living machines in a damp, underground den, where from morning till night we kneaded dough and rolled it into kringels and cracknels. Opposite the underground window of our den was a brick wall, green with mildew. The windows were grated on the outside with a close iron netting, and the light of the sun could not pierce through the panes, covered as they were with flour-dust.