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Poor People: New Translation: Annotated Edition

Poor People: New Translation: Annotated Edition

Dostoevsky, Fyodor
Aplin, Hugh

Paperback

Historical FiguresLiterary Criticism

Publisher Price: $12.00

ISBN10: 1847493122
ISBN13: 9781847493125
Publisher: Alma Books
Published: Sep 1 2013
Pages: 224
Weight: 0.48
Height: 0.80 Width: 5.00 Depth: 7.70
Language: English
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.

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