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The Spy

Maksim Gorky

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Book Excerpt: 
. . .e master, he snuffled loud and tugged at his ear with his left hand. He often brought books and paper parcels, over which the master nodded his head approvingly and smiled quietly. He would then hide them in the table, or in a corner on a shelf in back of him. Yevsey did not see his master pay for these books, but he did see him sell them.

One of the students began to visit the shop more frequently than the others. He was a tall, blue-eyed young man with a carrot-colored mustache and a cap stuck back on his neck, leaving bare a large white forehead. He spoke in a thick voice, 62laughed aloud, and always bought many old journals.

Once the master pointed out a book to him that Dorimedont had brought; and while the student glanced through it, the old man told him something in a quick whisper.

"Interesting!" exclaimed the student, smiling amiably. "Ah, you old sinner, aren't you afraid, eh?"

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Community Reviews

A terrific novel, a great channeling of the spirit of a time. 1905, the events prior to the Russian Revolution of 1917 with all its magic, its liberation, its errors and horrors. Of course Gorky is a friend of communism and this leaks through this early novel of his on many occasions. But the writer

3,5 stars!

Il titolo originale è "La vita di un uomo inutile" (anni fa è stato riproposto come Storia di un uomo inutile da UTET).
A ben vedere è un romanzo piuttosto trascurato nel panorama delle opere di Maksim Gorkij. In effetti, non è ben collocabile ideologicamente, da una parte e/o dall'altra, r

လွယ်လွယ်ပြောရင်တော့ ဒလန်တစ်ယောက် ဘဝဇာတ်သိမ်းမလှတဲ့ ဇာတ်လမ်းပေါ့။

ဒါပေမယ့် လူတစ်ယောက်ဟာ ကိုယ်တိုင် လိုလိုလားလားရှိတာ မဟုတ်ပေမယ့် လူမှုဘဝ အခြေအနေတွေက ဖိနှိပ်တဲ့စနစ်ကို အလုပ်အကျွေးပြုရတဲ့ ဘဝဆီ ဆွဲနှစ်သွားတတ်တယ်ဆိုတာ ကလင်းကော့ဇာတ်ကောင်ဆီမှာ တွေ့ရမယ်။ ဒါပေမယ့် ဖောက်ပြန်ရေးအမြင်တွေကပဲ လုံးဝ လွှမ်းမိုးအနိုင

خطر اسپویل
در این داستان شاهد شخصی به نام یوسی هستیم که دوران کودکی سختی داشته و پس ازاتفاقاتی که در روند داستان اتفاق میفته به عنوان جاسوس در دستگاه تزار برای سرکوب انقلابیون دست به کار میشه، غالب شخصیت هایی که در طول داستان درسیستم جاسوسی فعالیت دارند شخصیت های قابل پذیرشی درجامعه نیستند، در پایان

The story of a man, full of fears, that never found the courage to face them. Suffering from tormenting thoughts, but also by an invincible cowardice, lives his life as a spectator, letting himself being dragged by events, which lead him to end up as a spy, an informer for the shake of the Czar. Non

الرواية عبقرية وكاتب عبقرى قدر ينقل فترة الاضطرابات فى حكومة القيصر عن طريق رسم شخصيه الجاسوس يافسى كليمكوف
شخصية يتيمة قضت طفولة مشوهه من الضرب والتعدى والسكوت على الظلم من بدايته فى بيت عمه وضرب ابن عمه وزوجه عمه
الشخصية المضطربة دى اللى مش عارفه تاخد اى قرار فى حياتها كان سهل جدا يكون جاسوس
والجا

I think Gorky’s pro-revolutionary sentiment got in the way of what early on looked like it might develop into an intriguing psychological portrait of the sort of person we don’t usually focus on in literature, or in life; a guy who from early days was dealt a rotten hand — in terms of family circums

'Εχει μεγάλο ενδιαφέρον από ιστορική άποψη.

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