Fyodor Dostoevsky - Notes from the Dead House. Poor people. A gift book in a leather cover. "Notes from the Dead House" is a story based on Dostoevsky's memoirs of the years spent in the Omsk prison. This work is considered one of the most significant in the writer's work, since it is from him that the real Dostoevsky begins with his psychologism and depth of images. "Poor People" is Dostoevsky's debut novel, which was highly appreciated by critics and readers. V. G. Belinsky wrote that Dostoevsky "is a completely unknown and new name, but which seems destined to play a significant role in our literature." This touching love story of a minor official Makar Devushkin and Varenka Dobroselova reveals the eternal theme of the "little man", showing that despite the inner beauty and nobility of the soul, they may be doomed to suffer in this cruel world.