[Gutenberg 51094] • The Spy: The Story of a Superfluous Man
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- Authors
- Gorky, Maksim
- Tags
- 1905-1907 -- fiction , spy stories , russia -- history -- revolution , classics , russian fiction -- translations into english
- Date
- 1907-01-01T00:00:00+00:00
- Size
- 0.27 MB
- Lang
- en
This is a story of a young man, Yevsey Kimkov, who became a government spy, when the Russian Empire was on the brink of its first revolution (1905). The novel shows the Yevsey's inner fears and his struggle as he has to betray people he wants to consider friends for the sake of the Czarist regime.