A Faint Heart
AuthorFyodor Dostoevsky
TranslatorConstance Garnett
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A Faint Heart at Russian Wikisource
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A Faint Heart(Russian: Слабое сердце) is a work by Russian author Fyodor Dostoevsky. It was first published in 1848 in Otechestvennye Zapiski.


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Around the New Year, two young men, Arkadiy Ivanovich Nefedovich and Vasily "Vasya" Petrovich Shumkov, are discussing the upcoming marriage of Shumkov to Liza Artemyeva. Nefedovich doubts that Shumkov can support himself and his wife on his pay as a poor clerk, but Shumkov reminds him (write more here later)

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