Poor Folk
This novel brought its 24-year-old author critical and public acclaim nearly overnight. Written in the form of letters, it recounts a blossoming romance amid St. Petersburg's slums between a middle-aged writer and a much younger seamstress. Compact and easy to read, it represents an excellent...
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This novel brought its 24-year-old author critical and public acclaim nearly overnight. Written in the form of letters, it recounts a blossoming romance amid St. Petersburg's slums between a middle-aged writer and a much younger seamstress. Compact and easy to read, it represents an excellent introduction to Dostoyevsky's work.
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Format: paperback
ISBN:
9780486456614 (0486456617)
Publish date: April 19th 2007
Publisher: Dover Publications
Pages no: 112
Edition language: English
bookshelves: spring-2015, slavic, shortstory-shortstories-novellas, tbr-busting-2015, translation, published-1846, epistolatory-diary-blog, debut, parody Read from April 15 to 16, 2015 Varvara DobroselovaDescription: Poor Folk is an epistolary novel -- that is, a tale told as a series of lette...
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Oh poor people "Makar" and "Barbra"!You're very rich in love. As usual with my all time favorite writer Fyodor Dostoyevsky, I travel to another world. This novella is surely one of the best. Perfumed love letters between two rich lovers (I refuse to call them poor, they are very rich in my eyes, ric...
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This is a ridiculous book. It is the letters exchanged between a poor old man and a poor young woman who live in the same housing complex but who rarely see each other for the sake of propriety. It's basically something like this:"Oh Makar this week I lost my job and I'm running out of cash and I'm ...
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