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Poor Folk
Chapters (57)
- April 8th: My Dearest Barbara Alexievna 0:00
- April 8th: My Beloved Makar Alexievitch 12:16
- April 8th: My Dearest Barbara Alexievna 18:40
- April 9th: My Dearest Makar Alexievitch 28:04
- April 12th: Dearest Mistress Barbara Alexievna 30:17
- April 25th: My Dearest Makar Alexievitch 40:23
- May 20th: My Dearest Little Barbara 43:17
- June 1st: My Beloved Makar Alexievitch 46:59
- June 1st: My Beloved Makar Alexievitch — I 48:26
- June 1st: My Beloved Makar Alexievitch — II 1:02:44
- June 11th: How I Thank You for Our Walk to the Islands Yesterday, Makar Alexievitch! 2:05:41
- June 12th: My Dearest Barbara Alexievna 2:08:10
- June 20th: My Dearest Makar Alexievitch 2:15:19
- June 21st: My Own, My Darling 2:19:06
- June 22nd: My Dearest Barbara Alexievna 2:21:06
- June 25th: My Beloved Makar Alexievitch 2:23:30
- June 26th: My Dear Little Barbara 2:24:09
- June 27th: My Dearest Makar Alexievitch 2:37:58
- June 28th: My Dearest Barbara Alexievna 2:43:00
- My Dear Makar Alexievitch 2:48:20
- July 1st: Rubbish, Rubbish, Barbara! 2:52:08
- My Dearest Makar Alexievitch 3:00:29
- July 7th: My Dearest Barbara Alexievna 3:02:08
- July 8th: My Dearest Barbara Alexievna 3:05:23
- July 27th: My Dearest Makar Alexievitch 3:13:52
- July 28th: My Priceless Barbara Alexievna 3:19:50
- July 28th: Dearest Little Barbara 3:22:56
- July 29th: My Dearest Makar Alexievitch 3:29:20
- August 1st: My Darling Barbara Alexievna 3:30:16
- August 2nd: My Dearest Makar Alexievitch 3:37:05
- August 3rd: My Angel, Barbara Alexievna 3:38:20
- August 4th: My Beloved Makar Alexievitch 3:44:24
- August 4th: My Beloved Barbara Alexievna 3:48:58
- August 5th: Dearest Makar Alexievitch 3:56:00
- August 5th: My Darling Little Barbara 3:58:59
- August 11th: O Barbara Alexievna, I Am Undone 4:10:58
- August 13th: My Beloved Makar Alexievitch 4:13:56
- August 14th: What Is the Matter with You, Makar Alexievitch? 4:15:02
- August 19th: My Dearest Barbara Alexievna 4:18:31
- August 21st: My Dear and Kind Barbara Alexievna 4:20:08
- September 3rd: The Reason Why I Did Not Finish My Last Letter, Makar Alexievitch, Was That I Found It So Difficult to Write 4:24:50
- September 5th: My Beloved Barbara 4:35:26
- September 9th: My Dearest Barbara Alexievna 4:59:59
- September 10th: My Beloved Makar Alexievitch 5:12:02
- September 11th: My Darling Barbara Alexievna 5:13:37
- September 15th: My Dearest Makar Alexievitch 5:20:36
- September 18th: My Beloved Barbara Alexievna 5:24:22
- September 19th: My Beloved Barbara Alexievna 5:32:23
- September 23rd: My Dearest Makar Alexievitch 5:33:18
- September 23rd: My Beloved Barbara Alexievna 5:41:40
- September 27th: Dear Makar Alexievitch 5:45:09
- September 27th: My Beloved Barbara Alexievna 5:49:16
- September 28th: My Dearest Makar Alexievitch 5:51:01
- September 28th: My Beloved Barbara Alexievna 5:52:17
- September 29th: My Own Barbara Alexievna 5:53:18
- September 30th: My Beloved Makar Alexievitch 5:56:27
- Beloved Barbara—My Jewel, My Priceless One 5:59:38
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In 1840s St. Petersburg the ageing copyist Makar Dievushkin is, with various degrees of subtlety, trying to woo Barbara Dobroselova, a young woman who has had a swift fall in fortunes. Told in alternating letters to each other, their past stories and current hopes play out in raw and personal detail, as the daily realities of an uncaring and expensive town take hold.
Poor Folk was Fyodor Dostoevsky’s first novel and was written to try and cover his escalating debts from his expensive lifestyle and gambling addiction. Luckily for Dostoevsky, it was an immediate success when it was published in the St. Petersburg Collection, and the accolades from critics such as Belinsky and Herzen propelled him into the high echelons of Russian literary society. This edition is the 1915 translation by C. J. Hogarth.