An Honest Thief and Other Short Stories

This vintage book contains a collection of short stories by Russian author Fyodor Dostoevsky, including his famous 1848 story of the tragic drunkard: ¿An Honest Thief¿. Fyodor Mikhailovich Dostoevsky (1821 ¿ 1881) was a Russian novelist, essayist, short story writer, journalist, and philosopher. His literature examines human psychology during the turbulent social, spiritual and political atmosphere of 19th-century Russia, and he is considered one of the greatest psychologists in world literature. A prolific writer, Dostoevsky produced 11 novels, three novellas, 17 short stories and numerous other works. This volume is not to be missed by fans of Russian literature or collectors of Dostoevsky's seminal work. The stories include: ¿An Honest Thief¿, ¿A Novel in Nine Letters¿, ¿An Unpleasant Predicament¿, ¿Another Man's Wife¿, ¿The Heavenly Christmas Tree¿, ¿The Peasant Marey¿, ¿The Crocodile¿, ¿Bobok ¿ From Somebody's Diary¿, ¿The Dream of a Ridiculous Man¿. Many vintage books such as this are increasingly scarce and expensive. We are republishing this volume now in an affordable, modern, high-quality edition complete with a specially-commissioned new biography of the author.