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Poor Folk
Poor Folk (Bednye lyudi) is the debut novel of Russian writer Fyodor Dostoevsky, published in 1846. Written as an exchange of letters between Makar Devushkin, an impoverished government clerk, and Varvara Dobroselova, a young woman living in strained circumstances, the novel depicts their daily struggles with poverty, illness, and social marginalization in St. Petersburg. The epistolary form allow...
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Augustus
John Williams's Augustus, published in 1972, reconstructs the life of Rome's first emperor through fictional letters, diary entries and documents. The American author's historical novel won the National Book Award for Fiction. Its epistolary form lets different figures describe events from their own positions, so the portrait of Augustus emerges through competing loyalties and incomplete knowledge...
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