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   Plot. The orphan boy Yevsey Klimkov is apprenticed to the owner of a shop, who secretly sells prohibited revolutionary books and then informs on his customers to the police. The bookseller is murdered, and the bereft, frail, and weak Klimkov is coerced by the Tsarist police to be a spy and informer. [2] [3]

   • Author: Maxim Gorky

   • Publish Year: 1908

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   The "useless/superfluous" man in question is Yevsei Klimkov, an orphan from a Russian peasant family. His uncle, a blacksmith, failing to find any potential in him as an artisan, apprentices him to a bookseller in the local town.

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   Jan 1, 1990 · The Life of a Useless Man. Paperback – January 1, 1990. Depicts the mental torments of a young Russian who is induced to spy on his friends for the Czar following the events of Bloody Sunday. Book recommendations, author interviews, editors' picks, and more. Read it now.

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   • Author: Maksim Gorky

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   Aug 22, 2011 · The life of a useless man. by. Gorky, Maksim, 1868-1936. Publication date. 1990. Topics. Spy stories. Publisher. New York : Carroll & Graf.

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   Author: Maksim Gorky. Summary: A novel, originally written in 1907, shortly after the unsuccessful Russian Revolution of 1905 in which Gorky took an active part. The protagonist is a spy for the Tsarist regime more through weakness than conviction. Print Book, English, 1975. Edition: View all formats and editions.

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   Books. The Life of a Useless Man. Maksim Gorky. Penguin, 1975 - English fiction - 284 pages. A novel, originally written in 1907, shortly after the unsuccessful Russian Revolution of 1905 in...

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   The story tells the life of loner and orphan Yevsey Klimkov who after some care by his uncle and aged about 14 finds himself becoming an ineffectual, scared, selfish, insider and unwilling spy for the military police network of informers in a town near Petersburg.

   • Author: Maxim Gorky

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   Who wrote the life of a Useless Man?

   • The Life of a Useless Man ( pre-reform Russian: Жизнь ненужнаго человѣка; post-reform Russian: Жизнь ненужного человека, romanized : Zhizn' nenuzhnogo cheloveka, also translated as The Spy: The Story of a Superfluous Man) is a 1908 novel by Maxim Gorky.

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   What is the summary of a useless life?

   • A Useless Life A farmer got so old that he couldn't work the fields anymore. So he would spend the day just sitting on the porch. His son, still working the farm, would look up from time to time and see his father sitting there. "He's of no use any more," the son thought to himself, "he doesn't do anything!"

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   When did Maxim Gorky write the life of a Useless Man?

   • Maxim Gorky completed The Life of a Useless Man in the summer of 1907, before The Confession, although The Confession was published first. It was not possible to publish the book In Russia, so it was published in Berlin by I. P. Ladyzhnikov.

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   What is a useless person?

   • that person is of no use.Like he is not good at studies,sports neither he ever participated in any school competition is useless person.He does not have contribution in any field .He enjoys his entire life on bed,who get served food on bed,make nonsense commentary on others.And the person who is more of inclined towards womens.

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   Are some people completely useless?

   • Actually, nobody is completely useless. You can use people who have given up on life as bad examples for the coming up generations. People who don't vote! And the irony is that these are people you would see complain the most about the country! So please go out and vote.

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