Published in 1913, this book portrays the city just before a series of revolutions that would dramatically change the course of history. It is set in Petersburg in 1905 during the first Russian Revolution (the one we have largely forgotten). One of the most unusual novels I have read.
All he could do was wait here trembling in the corridor until daybreak.” “He was simply seized by an animal feeling for his own invaluable life he had no desire to return from the corridor he did not have the courage to glance into his own rooms he now had neither strength nor time to look for the bomb a second time everything got mixed up in his head, and he could no longer remember exactly either the minute or the hour when the time expired: any moment might prove to be the fatal one.
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