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Poor Folk explores poverty and the relationship between the poor and the rich, common themes of literary naturalism. Largely influenced by Nikolai Gogol 's The Overcoat , Alexander Pushkin 's The Stationmaster and Letters of Abelard and Heloise by Peter Abelard and Héloïse d’Argenteuil , [ 20 ] it is an epistolary novel composed of letters ...
The short stories Dostoyevsky wrote during the period before his imprisonment explore similar themes to Poor Folk and The Double. [30] " White Nights " "features rich nature and music imagery, gentle irony, usually directed at the first-person narrator himself, and a warm pathos that is always ready to turn into self-parody".
"The Poor People" is a short story written by Victor Hugo in 1854, translated into Russian by Lidia Veselitskaya, [1] and then rewritten or retold by Leo Tolstoy in 1908. It is the story of a woman, the protagonist ("Zhanna", "Jeanne" or "Jeanna", depending on the translator), her husband, their five children, and how some romantic feelings survive amidst their struggle in poverty. [2]
Narrated by a young novelist, Vanya (Ivan Petrovich), who has just released his first novel (which bears an obvious resemblance to Dostoevsky's own first novel, Poor Folk), it consists of two gradually converging plot lines. One deals with Vanya's close friend and former love object, Natasha, who has left her family to live with her new lover ...
A peasant begged some land from the king. When he and his daughter dug the field, they found a mortar made of gold. The daughter warned that if they gave it to the king for his kindness, he would ask for the pestle as well; the father gave it nonetheless, and the king asked for the pestle and put him in prison until he got it.
The Honest Labourer also known as The Jolly Thresher, Poor Man, Poor Man or The Nobleman and the Thresher is a traditional English Folk ballad (Roud #19), [1] which tells the story of a meeting between a poor labourer and a wealthy noble.
Poor people are also very good at finding bargains and pre-owned treasures in second-hand shops and yard sales. “They understand that high quality doesn’t always mean expensive,” Franklin added.
"Bobok" (Russian: Бобок, Bobok) is a short story by Fyodor Dostoevsky that first appeared in 1873 in his self-published Diary of a Writer. The story consists largely of a dialogue between recently deceased occupants of graves in a cemetery, most of whom are fully conscious and retain all the features of their living personalities.