Name: Poor People: New Translation
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Author: Fiódor M. Dostoievski
ISBN: 9781847493125

Type

Physical Book

Author

Fiódor M. Dostoievski

Translated by

Hugh Aplin

Publisher

Alma Books

Year

2012

Language

English

Pages

224

Format

Paperback

Dimensions

19.6x12.7x2 cm

Weight

0.22 kg.

ISBN

1847493122

ISBN13

9781847493125

Synopsis "Poor People: New Translation"

Presented as a series of letters between the humble copying clerk Devushkin and a distant relative of his, the young Varenka, Poor People brings to the fore the underclass of St Petersburg, who live at the margins of society in the most appalling conditions and abject poverty. As Devushkin tries to help Varenka improve her plight by selling anything he can, he is reduced to even more desperate circumstances and seeks refuge in alcohol, looking on helplessly as the object of his impossible love is taken away from him. Introducing the first in a long line of underground characters, Poor People, Dostoevsky's first full-length work of fiction, is a poignant, tragi-comic tale which foreshadows the greatness of his later novels.

Fiódor M. Dostoievski

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Fyodor Mikhailovich Dostoevsky (Moscow, November 11, 1821-Saint Petersburg, February 9, 1881) was one of the main writers of Tsarist Russia, whose literature explores human psychology in the complex political, social, and spiritual context of Russian society in the second half of the 19th century

He is considered one of the greatest writers of the West and of world literature.

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