Shool Library. Duration: 5 hours."Poor Folk" was the first novel by Fyodor Dostoevsky, which he wrote over the span of nine months. First published in 1846, it was lauded by the influential critic Belinsky as being socially conscious literature, who (among others) hailed him as the new Gogol. This novel is written in the form of letters of correspondence between the two main characters. Like Gogol's "The Overcoat", the novel gives a profound account of the lives of low income Russians in the mid-nineteenth century.
