01807cam a22003493u 4500 51094 UtSlPG 20260610134156.0 m cr n 260607r2016||||utu|||||o|||||||||||||| d UtSlPG en iso639-1 PG Gorky, Maksim, 1868-1936 The Spy: The Story of a Superfluous Man Salt Lake City, UT : Project Gutenberg, 2016 1 online resource : multiple file formats text txt rdacontent computer c rdamedia online resource cr rdacarrier Wikipedia page about this book: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Life_of_a_Useless_Man Release date is 2016-01-31 E-text prepared by readbueno and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team (http://www.pgdp.net) from page images generously made available by Internet Archive (https://archive.org) "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 under imperial rule. (This is an automatically generated summary.) Original publication data not identified Spy stories Russian fiction -- Translations into English Russia -- History -- Revolution, 1905-1907 -- Fiction Seltzer, Thomas, 1875?-1943 https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/51094 91932 91932