- Written
- over
- the
- span
- of
- nine
- months
- between
- 1844
- and
- 1845,
- Dostoyevsky
- was
- in
- financial
- difficulty
- because
- of
- his
- extravagant
- living
- and
- his
- developing
- gambling
- addiction;
- although
- he
- had
- produced
- some
- translations
- of
- foreign
- novels,
- they
- had
- little
- success
- and
- he
- decided
- to
- write
- a
- novel
- of
- his
- own
- to
- try
- to
- raise
- funds.
- 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!
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