基本信息出版社：Penguin Classics
页码：288 页
出版日期：1989年04月
ISBN：0140445056
条形码：9780140445053
装帧：平装
正文语种：英语
丛书名：Penguin Classics
外文书名：《穷人》及其它小说

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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! Makar 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. These 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. --This text refers to the Hardcover edition.
作者简介 Fyodor Dostoevsky (1821-1881), author of Notes from Underground, Crime and Punishment, and The Brothers Karamazov, is one of the 19th Century's and Russia's most important novelist. --This text refers to the Paperback edition.