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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 ...
"Mr. Prokharchin" (Russian: Господин Прохарчин, Gospodin Prokharchin), also translated as "Mr. Prohartchin", [1] is a short story written in 1846 by Fyodor Dostoevsky and first published in the Annals of the Fatherland. [2]
Milman's 1894 translation of Dostoevsky's Poor Folk was well-received in the periodical press. [2] She became a contributor to Aubrey Beardsley's Yellow Book, writing on Henry James, and later contributing a short story set in Venice. She befriended a range of writers including Thomas Hardy and Henry James.
"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]
Poor Folk is an epistolary novel that depicts the relationship between the small, elderly official Makar Devushkin and the young seamstress Varvara Dobroselova, remote relatives who write letters to each other. Makar's tender, sentimental adoration for Varvara and her confident, warm friendship for him explain their evident preference for a ...
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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.
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