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Poor People

Бедные люди

Lev Tolstói en Yásnaia Poliana (1908)
byLeo Tolstoy

Prose version of Victor Hugo's poem Les pauvres gens: a fisherman's wife with five children, awaiting her husband on a stormy night, takes in the two orphans of a dead neighbour; when he returns, without a catch, he proposes the same before he knows. Written in 1905.

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Adaptation of Victor Hugo.

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  • Толстой, Л. Н. Собрание сочинений в 22 томах. Moscú: Judózhestvennaia literatura, 1978–1985 (índices de los tomos 1–22 en la Biblioteca Virtual Rusa, RVB; el t. 10, de 1982, recoge los relatos de la Nueva Azbuka y de los cuatro Libros rusos de lectura).

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