Mr. Prokharchin

Famous stories by F. M. Dostoevsky for reading at home and at school.
At the center of the plot is an elderly, reclusive clerk who lives in unending anxiety: he dreads his superiors, any changes, his neighbors’ mockery, and the possibility of losing his insignificant position. This constant fear makes him a shut-in and painfully grasping. But behind his apparent poverty and humiliation lies a grim, tragic secret.