The life of a useless man

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The life of a useless man

Maxim Gorky ; translated by Moura Budberg

(Penguin twentieth-century classics)

Penguin, 1975

Other Title

Zhiznʹ nenuzhnog cheloveka

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This translation originally published: Garden City, N.Y. : Doubleday, 1971 ; London : Deutsch, 1972

"The first full translation of the Russian text which Gorky completed and revised before his death"--Pref

Translation of: Zhiznʹ nenuzhnog cheloveka

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Written in 1907, less than two years after the unsuccessful rebellion on Bloody Sunday, this novel tells of Yevsey Klimkow who spies for the military in support of the Tsar. He makes friends who are capable of defying oppression, but this association brings a terrible crisis upon him.

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