TY  - BOOK
AU  - Gorky,Maksim
AU  - Seltzer,Thomas
TI  - The Spy: The Story of a Superfluous Man
AV  - PG 
PY  - 2016///
CY  - Salt Lake City, UT
PB  - Project Gutenberg
KW  - Spy stories
KW  - Russian fiction -- Translations into English
KW  - Russia -- History -- Revolution, 1905-1907 -- Fiction
N1  - 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
N2  - "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.)
UR  - https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/51094
ER  -