Project Gutenberg 2012-09-13 Public domain in the USA. 1989 Dostoyevsky, Fyodor 1821 1881 Dostoevsky, Fyodor Dostoievski, Fédor Mikhailovitch Достоевский, Фёдор Михайлович Dostoievski, Fiodor Dostoievski, Fedor Mikhailovitch Dostoyevsky, F. M. Dostojewski, Fjodor Michailowitsch Dostoyevsky, Fyodor Mikhailovich Dostoevsky, Feodor Short Stories 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 -- The dream of a ridiculous man. Produced by Sankar Viswanathan, sp1nd, and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images generously made available by The Internet Archive) "Short Stories" by Fyodor Dostoyevsky is a collection of narratives written in the late 19th century. The book includes tales that delve into human psychology, moral dilemmas, and social issues, exploring the complexities of character and society through various protagonists. Among the stories included is "An Honest Thief," which introduces a bachelor and his curious relationship with his housekeeper and a new lodger, revealing themes of empathy, loneliness and the nature of theft. At the start of the collection, the opening story begins with the narrator, a solitary bachelor, having an unexpected conversation with his usually quiet housekeeper, Agrafena. She insists on taking in a lodger, an old soldier named Astafy Ivanovitch, which initially fills the narrator with relief at the prospect of companionship. However, a theft of the narrator’s greatcoat soon creates tension between the characters, particularly Astafy, who becomes fixated on the incident, revealing his own vulnerability and moral struggles. This introduction sets the stage for Dostoyevsky's exploration of human relationships and the contradictions within them. (This is an automatically generated summary.) Reading ease score: 81.7 (6th grade). Easy to read. en Russia -- Social life and customs -- Fiction Short stories, Russian -- Translations into English Dostoyevsky, Fyodor, 1821-1881 -- Translations into English PG Text Browsing: Literature Browsing: Russian Interest Browsing: Fiction Category: Short Stories Category: Russian Literature 507904 2025-06-16T14:26:49.087417 text/html 512268 2012-09-13T09:04:46 text/html; charset=iso-8859-1 271477 2025-06-16T14:26:58.378194 application/epub+zip 275249 2025-06-16T14:26:51.609260 application/epub+zip 262216 2025-06-16T14:26:50.034242 application/epub+zip 470790 2025-06-16T14:27:03.389701 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 432245 2025-06-16T14:26:57.366221 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 386828 2022-09-18T16:10:11.515844 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 475682 2023-09-17T16:00:32.542350 text/plain 17037 2025-06-16T14:27:04.765654 application/rdf+xml 11094 2025-06-16T14:26:50.610334 image/jpeg 3109 2025-06-16T14:26:50.325247 image/jpeg 256553 2025-06-16T14:26:49.135215 application/octet-stream application/zip Archives containing the RDF files for *all* our books can be downloaded at https://book.klll.cc/wiki/Gutenberg:Feeds#The_Complete_Project_Gutenberg_Catalog en.wikipedia