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Poor Folk

Fyodor Dostoevsky

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May 08, 2019 Wes F rated it liked it · review of another edition

Read this via Serial app on my iPhone. I like most of whatever Dostoyevsky wrote--he was a spiritual giant & genius. This was an epistolary novel, revealing lots about the lives & thoughts of the two main characters (the letter writers). Pretty interesting--not on par with his best novels. Of course, that's partly because it was his first novel...give the guy a break. ...more

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Shelves: translation, world-europe-russia, two-word-title, literary-fiction, cover-yellow, russian-literature, alliteration, 1840-1849, p2, coverx-shoe

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