The Man Who Was Afraid The Man Who Was Afraid

The Man Who Was Afraid

Publisher Description

ABOUT sixty years ago, when fortunes of millions had been made on the Volga with fairy-tale rapidity, Ignat Gordyeeff, a young fellow, was working as water-pumper on one of the barges of the wealthy merchant Zayev. Built like a giant, handsome and not at all stupid, he was one of those people whom luck always follows everywhere—not because they are gifted and industrious, but rather because, having an enormous stock of energy at their command, they cannot stop to think over the choice of means when on their way toward their aims, and, excepting their own will, they know no law. Sometimes they speak of their conscience with fear, sometimes they really torture themselves struggling with it, but conscience is an unconquerable power to the faint-hearted only; the strong master it quickly and make it a slave to their desires, for they unconsciously feel that, given room and freedom, conscience would fracture life.

GENRE
Fiction & Literature
RELEASED
2014
31 December
LANGUAGE
EN
English
LENGTH
493
Pages
PUBLISHER
Project Gutenberg
SIZE
292.1
KB

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