Poor Folk and Other Stories
Categories: Literature & Fiction
Poor Folk (1846) is Fyodor Dostoevsky's first novel, told in letters between Makar Devushkin, a poor, aging copy clerk in St. Petersburg, and Varvara Dobroselova, a young distant relative living across the courtyard. He spends what little he has to help her, and their letters show the humiliations of poverty and the dignity of the people who live in it. Its success made Dostoevsky famous at 24. This Penguin Classics edition also includes three of his early stories.
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