Farmers, laborers, simple men, the poor

Books that make you feel for them

Peterson recommended this in one of his lists. Anyone here read it?

death on the installment plan

tolstoy's short stories

Growth of the Soil

Poor white
Grow of the soil
This Good Earth

The orlovs

Can’t look past Steinbeck for premium poverty porn.

Down and Out in Paris and London
You Can't Win
The People of the Abyss

Fun fact is that after Poor Folk was published, Dusty was only popular in the public eye for 15 days before The Double was published and everyone shat on him.

As others have already written, Growth of the Soil.

Let Us Now Praise Famous Men

The Wolf of Wall Street

This. Henry Jaeger can do it, too. Unfortunately, no one but me knows him.

bum

Being homeless and unemployed does that

Van Gogh's letters where he describes the family that gave rise to The Potato Eaters group of paintings. In some ways, the letters may be more vivid and impressive than the paintings.

Reading is more pleasurable.

Yeah, this, wow. Hadn't thought about this in awhile, and a rush of images comes into my mind thinking about it.

nice rec, user

danke

Heinrich Böll's "And he didn't say a word" and pic related.

Grapes of Wrath and Of Mice and Men are both good at that. And most of Steinbeck to various degreees

>death on the installment plan

This. Unbearable misery, yet so funny.