«The Life of a Useless Man» in Russian with a Parallel Translation
Original title:
Жизнь ненужного человека
Language:
Russian
Difficulty:
C2
Year:
1908
Number of pages:
191
"The Life of a Useless Man" is a story by Maxim Gorky, published in 1908. The main character, Yevsey Klimkov, gets a job in a bookstore. Its owner sells forbidden literature and then turns it over to the police. So Yevsey ends up in the tsarist police, which makes him their spy.
