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Poor Folk was Dostoyevsky‘s first great triumph in fiction, a work that hints at the double-acts and obsessions of his later genius. Set in a world of offices, lodging houses, and seamstress’s rooms, it unfolds an impoverished love affair through letters between a copy clerk and a young girl living opposite him.

This volume also includes The Landlady, which portrays a dreamer hero lost in artistic reveries until forced to move from his lodgings; Polzunkov, a sketch of a « voluntary buffoon »; and Mr. Prokharchin, inspired by a stranger-than-fiction newspaper story about a poor man’s hidden hoards, which Dostoyevsky transformed into an inspired and desolate comedy.

• Language: English
• Author: Fyodor Dostoyevsky
• Format: Paperback
• Pages: 288
• ISBN: 9780140445053
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