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Poor Folk

Fyodor Dostoyevsky · C. J. (Charles James) Hogarth

FormatEbook

Published2000

Words54,248

LanguageEnglish

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About this book

This epistolary novel presents the letters exchanged between Makar Devushkin, a poor copy clerk, and Varvara Dobroselova, a young woman, as they endure hardship in St. Petersburg. It suits readers interested in nineteenth-century Russian literature and in Dostoyevsky's first novel.

Fyodor Dostoyevsky

Fyodor Mikhailovich Dostoevsky was a Russian philosopher, novelist, short-story writer, essayist and journalist. He is regarded as one of the greatest novelists in both Russian and world literature, and many of his works are considered highly influential masterpieces. Dostoevsky's literary works explore the human condition in the troubled political, social and spiritual atmospheres of 19th-century Russia, and engage with a variety of philosophical and religious themes. His most acclaimed novels include Crime and Punishment (1866), The Idiot (1869), Demons (1872), The Adolescent (1875) and The Brothers Karamazov (1880). His Notes from Underground, a novella published in 1864, is considered on

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