A delicate friendship and fragile love blossoming in the shadow of poverty... Poor Folk is Fyodor Dostoevsky’s powerful debut novel, marking his entry into the literary world. Told through a heartfelt and moving exchange of letters between Makar Devushkin and Varvara Dobroselova, the story unveils a quiet tragedy unfolding within the lower classes of 19th-century Russia. On one side, an aging and impoverished government clerk; on the other, a young woman struggling to survive. As loneliness, dig ...