Name: Poor Folk
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Author: Fiódor M. Dostoievski
ISBN: 9781535016391

Type

Physical Book

Author

Fiódor M. Dostoievski

Translated by

C. J. Hogarth

Publisher

Createspace

Language

English

Pages

Format

Paperback

Dimensions

25.4 x 17.8 x 0.5 cm

Weight

0.17 kg.

ISBN13

9781535016391

Synopsis "Poor Folk"

Poor Folk by Fyodor Dostoyevsky - Translated by C. J. Hogarth. Poor Folk, sometimes translated as Poor People, is the first novel by Fyodor Dostoyevsky, written over the span of nine months between 1844 and 1845. Dostoyevsky was in financial difficulty because of his extravagant living and his developing gambling addiction; although he had produced some translations of foreign novels, they had little success, and he decided to write a novel of his own to try to raise funds. Varvara Dobroselova and Makar Devushkin are second cousins twice-removed and live across from each other on the same street in terrible apartments. Devushkin's, for example, is merely a portioned-off section of the kitchen, and he lives with several other tenants, such as the Gorshkovs, whose son who groans in agonizing hunger almost the entire story and eventually dies. Devushkin and Dobroselova exchange letters attesting to their terrible living conditions and the former frequently squanders his money on gifts for her.

Fiódor M. Dostoievski

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Fyodor Mikhailovich Dostoevsky (Moscow, November 11, 1821-Saint Petersburg, February 9, 1881) was one of the main writers of Tsarist Russia, whose literature explores human psychology in the complex political, social, and spiritual context of Russian society in the second half of the 19th century

He is considered one of the greatest writers of the West and of world literature.

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