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.

Media	Books Paperback Book (Book with soft cover and glued back)
Released	June 30, 2016
ISBN13	9781535016391
Publishers	Createspace Independent Publishing Platf
Pages	90
Dimensions	178 × 254 × 5 mm · 172 g
Language	English

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