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A Gentle Creature - cover

A Gentle Creature

Fyodor Dostoevsky

Publisher: Adelphi Press

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The mysterious narrator is the owner of a pawnshop, and one of his repeated customers was a young girl of sixteen who always pawns items to earn money to advertise as a governess in the newspaper. The narrator could see that she was in a dire financial situation, and he often gave her much more for her pawned items than they were reasonably worth. The narrator slowly develops an interest in the girl.
Available since: 05/13/2018.

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