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Poor Folk and Other Stories - The Landlady Mr Prokhartchin Polzunkov & The Honest Thief by one of the greatest Russian writers author of Crime and Punishment The Brothers Karamazov The Idiot The House of the Dead Demons - cover

Poor Folk and Other Stories - The Landlady Mr Prokhartchin Polzunkov & The Honest Thief by one of the greatest Russian writers author of Crime and Punishment The Brothers Karamazov The Idiot The House of the Dead Demons

Fyodor Dostoyevsky

Publisher: e-artnow

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This carefully crafted ebook: "Poor Folk and Other Stories" is formatted for your eReader with a functional and detailed table of contents.
Inspired by the works of Gogol, Pushkin, and Karamzin, as well as English and French authors, Poor Folk is written in the form of letters between the two main characters, Makar Devushkin and Varvara Dobroselova, who are poor second cousins. The novel showcases the life of poor people, their relationship with rich people, and poverty in general, all common themes of literary naturalism.
Fyodor Dostoyevsky (1821-1881) was a Russian novelist, short story writer, essayist, journalist and philosopher. His literary works explore human psychology in the troubled political, social, and spiritual atmosphere of 19th-century Russia.
Table of Contents:
Poor Folk
The Landlady
Mr. Prokhartchin
Polzunkov
The Honest Thief
Fyodor Dostoyevsky, A Study by Aimée Dostoyevsky (Biography)
Available since: 05/24/2015.
Print length: 271 pages.

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