Poor Folk
Fyodor Dostoevsky
Publisher: CDED
Summary
Written in the form of letters, it recounts a blossoming romance amid St. Petersburg's slums between a middle-aged writer and a much younger seamstress.
Available since: 12/12/2018.
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