Poor Folk

Fyodor Dostoevsky

⏱ 7 minRussian classic

A poor ageing clerk and a young seamstress across the courtyard pour out a shy, hopeless love in letters, until a marriage of convenience carries her away for ever. Dostoevsky's tender first novel.

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