The Gorky, Maksim 1868-1936 creator Seltzer, Thomas 1875?-1943 text utu 2016 monographic en 1 online resource : multiple file formats "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.) 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) Original publication data not identified Spy stories Russian fiction -- Translations into English Russia -- History -- Revolution, 1905-1907 -- Fiction PG Original publication data not identified https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/51094 https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/51094 UtSlPG 260607 20260610134156.0 51094