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  • Published: 3 April 1989
  • ISBN: 9780141907826
  • Imprint: Penguin eBooks
  • Format: EBook
  • Pages: 288

Poor Folk and Other Stories




A collection of some of Dostoyevsky's finest short stories

With their penetrating psychological insight and their emphasis on human dignity, respect and forgiveness, Dostoyevsky's early short stories contain the seeds of the themes that came to his major novels. Poor Folk, the author's first great literary triumph, is the story of a tragic relationship between an impoverished copy clerk and a young seamstress, told through their passionate letters to each other. In The Landlady Dostoyevsky portrays a dreamer hero who is captivated by a curious couple and becomes their lodger. Mr Prokharchin, inspired by a true story, is a sly comedy centring on an eccentric miser, and Polzunkov is a powerful character sketch which, in common with the other tales in this volume, questions the very nature of existence.

  • Published: 3 April 1989
  • ISBN: 9780141907826
  • Imprint: Penguin eBooks
  • Format: EBook
  • Pages: 288

Other books in the series

A Dog's Heart
The Black Tulip
The Lady of the Camellias
Selected Poetry
On Sparta
Man and Superman
Saint Joan
Botchan
Kusamakura
Love
Annals
Selected Poems
Military Dispatches

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