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Short Stories — Fyodor Dostoyevsky

Short Stories

Fyodor Dostoyevsky

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  • Book language: English
  • 217 pages

This collection gathers short stories by Fyodor Dostoyevsky, including 'An Honest Thief.' The stories explore ordinary people, moral dilemmas, and the darker corners of the human heart through vivid encounters and quiet revelations. They are worth listening to for their psychological insight and Dostoyevsky's characteristic compassion.

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SHORT STORIES
By FIODOR DOSTOIEVSKI
THE WORLD'S
POPULAR CLASSICS
BOOKS, INC.
PUBLISHERS
NEW YORK
BOSTON
CONTENTS
PAGE
AN HONEST THIEF
1
A NOVEL IN NINE LETTERS
21
AN UNPLEASANT PREDICAMENT
36

AƿLjǵƒŧǡ Mĵƿ'Ǫ WƗżŧ

101

Tƒŧ Hŧĵ΄ŧƿƯΏ CƒǡƗǪǵƽĵǪ Tǡŧŧ

151

Tƒŧ PŧĵǪĵƿǵ MĵǡŧΏ

156

Tƒŧ CǡLjŕLjŠƗƯŧ

163

BLjœLjƫ

205

Tƒŧ Dǡŧĵƽ Ljż ĵ RƗŠƗŕǼƯLjǼǪ Mĵƿ   225

AN HONEST THIEF

One morning, just as I was about to set off to my office, Agrafena, my cook, washerwoman and housekeeper, came in to me and, to my surprise, entered into conversation.

She had always been such a silent, simple creature that, except her daily inquiry about dinner, she had not uttered a word for the last six years. I, at least, had heard nothing else from her.

"Here I have come in to have a word with you, sir," she began abruptly; "you really ought to let the little room."

"Which little room?"

"Why, the one next the kitchen, to be sure."

"What for?"

"What for? Why because folks do take in lodgers, to be sure."

"But who would take it?"

"Who would take it? Why, a lodger would take it, to be sure."

"But, my good woman, one could not put a bedstead in it; there wouldn't be room to move! Who could live in it?"

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Contents

  1. SHORT STORIES
  2. CONTENTS
  3. AN HONEST THIEF
  4. A NOVEL IN NINE LETTERS
  5. AN UNPLEASANT PREDICAMENT
  6. ANOTHER MAN'S WIFE > OR THE HUSBAND UNDER THE BED
  7. THE HEAVENLY CHRISTMAS TREE
  8. THE PEASANT MAREY
  9. THE CROCODILE
  10. BOBOK
  11. THE DREAM OF A RIDICULOUS MAN
  12. THE FULL PROJECT GUTENBERG™ LICENSE

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