Poor Folk

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  • 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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