Poor Folk and Other Stories - F. M. Dosteovsky

It is many many years since I have read Dostoyevsky’s The Idiot; what I do remember is that it was a difficult read that I struggled with. However, I thought it was worth giving this book, a selection of short stories, a read. Poor Folk, the title story in the book, was first published in 1846, just before Dostoyevsky was sentenced to death, which he later escaped, for his political activity. His more famous works, such as The Idiot and The Brothers Karamazov, were not published until the latter part of the century. Poor Folk, the main story in the book, describes the relationship between a poor clerk, Makar Davushkin, and a young seamstress, Varvara ...  Read the complete review