| Poor People: New Translation Contributor(s): Dostoevsky, Fyodor (Author), Aplin, Hugh (Translator) |
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ISBN: 1847493122 ISBN-13: 9781847493125 Publisher: Alma Books OUR PRICE: $10.80 Product Type: Paperback Published: September 2013 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Biography & Autobiography | Historical - Literary Criticism | Russian & Former Soviet Union |
| Dewey: 891.733 |
| Physical Information: 0.8" H x 5" W x 7.7" (0.48 lbs) 224 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: 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. |
Contributor Bio(s): Dostoevsky, Fyodor: - Fyodor Dostoevsky was a Russian novelist and writer of fiction whose works, including Crime and Punishment and The Brothers Karamazov, have had a profound and lasting effect on intellectual thought and world literature. |