{"product_id":"poor-folk-by-fyodor-mikhailovich-dostoevsky-fiction-classics-9781592244317","title":"Poor Folk by Fyodor Mikhailovich Dostoevsky, Fiction, Classics","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eMakar 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. \u003c\/strong\u003eThese 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWritten 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Wildside Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 09\/01\/2003\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781592244317\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 172\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.57lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.00h x 6.10w x 0.45d","brand":"Fyodor Mikhailovich Dostoevsky","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":43568760357045,"sku":"9781592244317","price":13.56,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0473\/0804\/6492\/files\/img_0cf257fa-036e-471e-81b5-1d05ebfb1234.jpg?v=1706630156","url":"https:\/\/pastforward.org\/products\/poor-folk-by-fyodor-mikhailovich-dostoevsky-fiction-classics-9781592244317","provider":"Past Forward","version":"1.0","type":"link"}