Poor People A Little Hero Author:Dostoevsky, Fyodor Poor People, Dostoevsky's first novel written when the author was 24, made him famous literally overnight. Although it shows the influence of Gogol's The Overcoat, this novel is written with a sympathy and understanding that enable it to stand on its own as an original work. So great was its impact upon the critics of its time that it became r... more »esponsible for the literary term, "the natural school," which was applied to an entire group of Russian novels.
A Little Hero is not only an amazingly frank portrait of Petrashevsky, a radical political dilettante, but is also a fine analysis of the mentality of an eleven-year -old boy who falls in love with a young married woman.« less