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From: Kliatt
Date: 20040701
Author:Flick, Hugh, Jr.
POOR PEOPLE. Fyodor Dostoevsky. 1846/ 2004. Read by Patrick Cullen & Julia Emlen. 4 tapes. 5.5 hrs. Blackstone Audiobooks. 0-7861-2626-4. $32.95. Plot, author notes. SA
Dostoevsky's first published fictional work, also frequently translated as Poor Folk, came out in 1846 before he was sent off to Siberia for a decade as a result of his revolutionary activities. His most famous works (Crime and Punishment, The Idiot, and The Brothers Karamazov) were published after his return from Siberia. Poor People is a heart-wrenching epistolary novel that is made up of a series of letters ...
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