The Spy: The Story of a Superfluous Man by Maksim Gorky
"The Spy: The Story of a Superfluous Man" by Maksim Gorky is a novel written in 1907 and published in 1908. It follows Yevsey Klimkov, a weak and frightened orphan coerced into becoming a spy for the Tsarist police. Forced to inform on revolutionaries he secretly admires, Klimkov descends into the role of agent provocateur, entrapping innocent people while his conscience tears him apart. The novel examines the moral corruption of espionage
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| Author | Gorky, Maksim, 1868-1936 |
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| Translator | Seltzer, Thomas, 1875?-1943 |
| Title | The Spy: The Story of a Superfluous Man |
| Note | Wikipedia page about this book: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Life_of_a_Useless_Man |
| Credits | E-text prepared by readbueno and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team (www.pgdp.net) from page images generously made available by Internet Archive (archive.org) |
| Reading Level | Reading ease score: 84.4 (6th grade). Easy to read. |
| Language | English |
| LoC Class | PG: Language and Literatures: Slavic (including Russian), Languages and Literature |
| Subject | Spy stories |
| Subject | Russian fiction -- Translations into English |
| Subject | Russia -- History -- Revolution, 1905-1907 -- Fiction |
| Category | Text |
| EBook-No. | 51094 |
| Release Date | Jan 31, 2016 |
| Most Recently Updated | Oct 22, 2024 |
| Copyright Status | Public domain in the USA. |
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