A Treatise on the Cultivation of the Grape, in Vineyards

from hemlokgang

Well, this was Dostoevsky's first novel. Not bad! The novel consists of a series of letters between a middle aged man, Makara, and a distant relative who is a young woman living near to him, Vavara. They are both poverty-stricken. As time passes and their circumstances ebb and flow, the reader co...

from kidzdoc

This first novel by Dostoevsky, published in 1846, consists of a series of letters between two distant cousins, who happen to live across the street from each other in squalid apartments in St. Petersburg. Makar Dievushkin, by the older of the two, works as a copyist, and lives in the kitchen of ...

from gmillar

I was worried about whether or not I would enjoy this book. I had already read "Notes from the Underground" and I didn't find that easy or enjoyable. This story I liked. It is one of Dostoyevsky's early works and was written before he got too "literary" in the Russian sense. The use of a series o...

from ctpress

This is Dostoevsky's first novel, written when he was 25. It's a short epistolary novel and I think a good introduction to this russian literary giant. It's essential Dostoyevskian in style and theme - the random thoughts and extreme emotions - the exploration of the destitute people - the solita...

from Clara53

"Why does it happen that a good man is left forlorn and forsaken, while happiness seems thrust upon another?"... Dostoyevsky's first novel!... "Poor Folk" or "Poor People" (I had the latter in my version of translation) - written in a form of letters between a man (who considers himself "old" at ...