An aging copying clerk and a young seamstress, distant relations living across a St. Petersburg courtyard from each other, sustain a tender epistolary friendship that poverty and a wealthy suitor slowly pull apart.
Books mentioned in Poor Folk (3)
The Tales of Belkin by Alexander Pushkin: “Also, Thedora has brought me a book--"The Stories of Bielkin"--which I will forward you, if you would care to read it. Only, do not soil it, nor yet retain it, for it does not belong to me. It is by Pushkin.”
The Station Master by Alexander Pushkin: “But now I have also read "The Station Overseer" in your little volume; and it is wonderful to think that one may live and yet be ignorant of the fact that under one's very nose there may be a book in which one's whole life is described as in a picture.”
The Overcoat by Nikolai Gogol: “Also I am sending you a book of stories; some of which I have read myself, particularly one called "The Cloak."”
Books that mention Poor Folk (1)
The Secret City by Hugh Walpole: “the Petrograd of "Poor Folk" and "Crime and Punishment"”