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    <body><![CDATA[I read Poor Folk (aka Poor People) in the Constance Garnett translation while studying Russian history in college.  In it Dostoevsky tries to do fictionally what Friedrich Engels did journalistically in The Condition of the Working Class in England.  I liked it because it gave a concrete picture of ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/17919484">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[This is a ridiculous book. It is the letters exchanged between a poor old man and a poor young woman who live in the same housing complex but who rarely see each other for the sake of propriety. It's basically something like this:<blockquote>&quot;Oh Makar this week I lost my job and I'm running out of cash and...</blockquote><a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/78885191">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <![CDATA[Poor Folk is an epistolary novel -- that is, a tale told as a series of letters between the characters. And oh, what characters these are! Makar Dievushkin Alexievitch is a copy writer, barely squeaking by; Barbara Dobroselova Alexievna works as a seamstress, and both face the sort of everyday humiliation society puts upon the poor. These are people respected by no one, not even by themselves. These are folks too poor, in their circumstances, to marry; the love between them is a chaste and proper thing, a love that brings some readers to tears. But it isn't maudlin, either; Fyodor Dostoevsky has something profound to say about these people and this circumstance. And he says it very well. When the book was first published a leading Russian literary critic of the day -- Belinsky -- prophesied that Dostoevsky would become a literary giant. It isn't hard to see how he came to that conclusion, and in hindsight, he was surely was correct.]]>
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    <body><![CDATA[I wanted to ease myself into Dostoevsky, as I have begun a few others of his and become discouraged. While I was able to finish this one, I had to force myself. I understood that he was trying to show us the plight of the poor during this time frame, but the characters he used to do this were madden...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/69105434">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <![CDATA[Poor Folk is an epistolary novel -- that is, a tale told as a series of letters between the characters. And oh, what characters these are! Makar Dievushkin Alexievitch is a copy writer, barely squeaking by; Barbara Dobroselova Alexievna works as a seamstress, and both face the sort of everyday humiliation society puts upon the poor. These are people respected by no one, not even by themselves. These are folks too poor, in their circumstances, to marry; the love between them is a chaste and proper thing, a love that brings some readers to tears. But it isn't maudlin, either; Fyodor Dostoevsky has something profound to say about these people and this circumstance. And he says it very well. When the book was first published a leading Russian literary critic of the day -- Belinsky -- prophesied that Dostoevsky would become a literary giant. It isn't hard to see how he came to that conclusion, and in hindsight, he was surely was correct.]]>
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    <body><![CDATA[I read this directly after the amazing <em>House of the Dead</em>, which may not have been the best idea.  <em>Poor Folk</em> was good enough, but pretty much pales in comparison to <em>House.</em>  I feel like I didn't give it a fair enough chance; it's also really not the kind of book I really get into, though.  I liked the...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/60352463">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <![CDATA[Poor Folk is an epistolary novel -- that is, a tale told as a series of letters between the characters. And oh, what characters these are! Makar Dievushkin Alexievitch is a copy writer, barely squeaking by; Barbara Dobroselova Alexievna works as a seamstress, and both face the sort of everyday humiliation society puts upon the poor. These are people respected by no one, not even by themselves. These are folks too poor, in their circumstances, to marry; the love between them is a chaste and proper thing, a love that brings some readers to tears. But it isn't maudlin, either; Fyodor Dostoevsky has something profound to say about these people and this circumstance. And he says it very well. When the book was first published a leading Russian literary critic of the day -- Belinsky -- prophesied that Dostoevsky would become a literary giant. It isn't hard to see how he came to that conclusion, and in hindsight, he was surely was correct.]]>
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    <body><![CDATA[Well, this was Dostoevsky's first novel.  Not bad!  The novel consists of a series of letters between a middle aged man, Makara, and a distant relative who is a young woman living near to him, Vavara.  They are both poverty-stricken.  As time passes and their circumstances ebb and flow, the reader c...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/46997141">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <![CDATA[Poor Folk is an epistolary novel -- that is, a tale told as a series of letters between the characters. And oh, what characters these are! Makar Dievushkin Alexievitch is a copy writer, barely squeaking by; Barbara Dobroselova Alexievna works as a seamstress, and both face the sort of everyday humiliation society puts upon the poor. These are people respected by no one, not even by themselves. These are folks too poor, in their circumstances, to marry; the love between them is a chaste and proper thing, a love that brings some readers to tears. But it isn't maudlin, either; Fyodor Dostoevsky has something profound to say about these people and this circumstance. And he says it very well. When the book was first published a leading Russian literary critic of the day -- Belinsky -- prophesied that Dostoevsky would become a literary giant. It isn't hard to see how he came to that conclusion, and in hindsight, he was surely was correct.]]>
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    <body><![CDATA[I read this because 1) I wanted to try Dostoevsky, and I found it shorter and more accessible than his later novels, and 2) I was interested in epistolary tales, that is, stories written through letters.  The two characters in the book were pitiful, sometimes through no fault of their own and someti...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/70929472">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <![CDATA[Poor Folk is an epistolary novel -- that is, a tale told as a series of letters between the characters. And oh, what characters these are! Makar Dievushkin Alexievitch is a copy writer, barely squeaking by; Barbara Dobroselova Alexievna works as a seamstress, and both face the sort of everyday humiliation society puts upon the poor. These are people respected by no one, not even by themselves. These are folks too poor, in their circumstances, to marry; the love between them is a chaste and proper thing, a love that brings some readers to tears. But it isn't maudlin, either; Fyodor Dostoevsky has something profound to say about these people and this circumstance. And he says it very well. When the book was first published a leading Russian literary critic of the day -- Belinsky -- prophesied that Dostoevsky would become a literary giant. It isn't hard to see how he came to that conclusion, and in hindsight, he was surely was correct.]]>
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    <body><![CDATA[I like this book a lot. More than a coherent narrative, the emotional language in Dostoyevsky's first novella is potentially tear-jerking. Love, poverty, the possibility of a long-distance relationship between two individuals living on the same city street, and a host of intertextual references to c...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/23734511">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <![CDATA[Poor Folk is an epistolary novel -- that is, a tale told as a series of letters between the characters. And oh, what characters these are! Makar Dievushkin Alexievitch is a copy writer, barely squeaking by; Barbara Dobroselova Alexievna works as a seamstress, and both face the sort of everyday humiliation society puts upon the poor. These are people respected by no one, not even by themselves. These are folks too poor, in their circumstances, to marry; the love between them is a chaste and proper thing, a love that brings some readers to tears. But it isn't maudlin, either; Fyodor Dostoevsky has something profound to say about these people and this circumstance. And he says it very well. When the book was first published a leading Russian literary critic of the day -- Belinsky -- prophesied that Dostoevsky would become a literary giant. It isn't hard to see how he came to that conclusion, and in hindsight, he was surely was correct.]]>
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    <body><![CDATA[A series of letters between two who love each other.  They are both so poor they do not believe they can marry.  They have no one's respect.  They do not even respect themselves.  A view of how people in poverty view themselves and how others perceive them.  This book made me feel grateful I have fa...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/52827259">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[My love for <u>Crime &amp; Punishment</u> overshadows any opinion I could form about this book. I had a hard time connecting with the characters. I should like to read this at a later date to better evaluate the work.]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[This book is so hilarious and poignant. I related to it so much that I found myself skimming across the ending because I thought I would die if I read it. It's so heartbreaking! ]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[It's a series of letters between two of the saddest people in the world. But hey, if you're a lady and you're wicked poor, there is always marriage! Because what is happiness anyway? Dude, Dostoevsky, you don't even have the &quot;Heh, oh what passes for humanity!&quot; pick-me-up of Chekhov, you ju...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/27953694">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[Trans. David McDuff<br/><br/>I mean, what is the greatest civic virtue? Yevstafy Ivanovich said the other day in a private conversation I had with him that the most important civic virtue is to know how to make a lot of money. He said, jokingly (I know he was joking), that moral education consists...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/37893065">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[This was ok. I was fascinated how everyone in Russia is poor and tragic and always fainting with tragic fever haze swoons and kept to their beds because they are so poor and depressed. I believe I would have enjoyed the stories more if I understood the background behind the society more thoroughly. ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/34062129">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[Massively underrated. Go read.]]></body>
    
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