{"product_id":"poor-folk-and-other-stories","title":"Poor Folk and Other Stories","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cmeta charset=\"UTF-8\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003ePoor Folk was Dostoyevsky's first great triumph in fiction and the work that looks forward to the double-acts and obsessions of his later genius. \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIt takes place in a world of office , lodging-house and seamstress's rooms and consists of an impoverished love affair in letters between a copy clerk and a young girl who lives opposite him. Of the other stories in this volume \u003ci\u003eThe Landlady\u003c\/i\u003e portrays a dreamer hero, housed in dreams of art until he is forced to move from his lodgings; and \u003ci\u003ePolzunkov\u003c\/i\u003e is a sketch of a \"voluntary buffoon.\" For \u003ci\u003eMr.Prokharchin\u003c\/i\u003e Dostoyevsky lifted a plot from a stranger-than-fiction newspaper story (about a poor man's hidden hoard's) and transformed it into inspired and desolate comedy.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"City Reads Books and Stationery","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51468971082034,"sku":null,"price":210.0,"currency_code":"GHS","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0680\/0746\/1170\/files\/IMG_0733.jpg?v=1783939259","url":"https:\/\/cityreadsbookstore.com\/products\/poor-folk-and-other-stories","provider":"City Reads Books and Stationery","version":"1.0","type":"link"}