An Honest Thief
Author | : Fyodor Dostoevsky |
Publisher | : Lindhardt og Ringhof |
Total Pages | : 7 |
Release | : 2022-05-24 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 8726501244 |
How can there be any such thing as "An Honest Thief"? I know Astafy has stolen my coat so why can't he just admit it? 'An Honest Thief' tells the story of Astafy Ivanovich, who takes up lodging in the narrator’s house. When the narrator’s coat is stolen, Astafy recalls the story of a thief he once gave shelter to, and a similar theft. With a careful depiction of the thief’s psychological and drunken state, and the situations that he finds himself in, Dostoevsky paints a realistic picture of the human condition. His characters are always torn between what their head thinks is right and what the heart dictates. A tragic story about friendship, regret, and forgiveness. Fyodor Dostoevsky (1821-1881) was a famous Russian writer of novels, short stories, and essays. A connoisseur of the troubled human psyche and the relationships between the individuals, Dostoevsky’s oeuvre covers a large area of subjects: politics, religion, social issues, philosophy, and the uncharted realms of the psychological. There have been at least 30 film and TV adaptations of Fyodor Dostoyevsky’s 1866 novel 'Crime and Punishment' with probably the most popular being the British BBC TV series starring John Simm as Raskolnikov and Ian McDiarmid as Porfiry Petrovich. 'The Idiot' has also been adapted for films and TV, as has 'Demons' and 'The Brothers Karamazov'.
The Best Short Stories of Fyodor Dostoevsky
Author | : Fyodor Dostoevsky |
Publisher | : Modern Library |
Total Pages | : 322 |
Release | : 2012-07-11 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 030782408X |
This collection, unique to the Modern Library, gathers seven of Dostoevsky's key works and shows him to be equally adept at the short story as with the novel. Exploring many of the same themes as in his longer works, these small masterpieces move from the tender and romantic White Nights, an archetypal nineteenth-century morality tale of pathos and loss, to the famous Notes from the Underground, a story of guilt, ineffectiveness, and uncompromising cynicism, and the first major work of existential literature. Among Dostoevsky's prototypical characters is Yemelyan in The Honest Thief, whose tragedy turns on an inability to resist crime. Presented in chronological order, in David Magarshack's celebrated translation, this is the definitive edition of Dostoevsky's best stories.
White Nights and Other Stories
Author | : Fyodor Dostoyevsky |
Publisher | : Independently Published |
Total Pages | : 206 |
Release | : 2021-01-23 |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : |
Although Russian fiction master Fyodor Dostoyevsky is best known for epic, sprawling novels that detail psychological and philosophical problems in minute detail, his more concise work is also remarkable in its scope and depth. This collection of stories will please fans of classic Russian literature and Dostoyevsky buffs who are interested in sampling the author's forays into another format.
An Honest Thief and Other Stories
Author | : Fyodor Dostoyevsky |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 342 |
Release | : 1919 |
Genre | : English fiction |
ISBN | : |
An Honest Thief
Author | : Fyodor Dostoyevsky |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 405 |
Release | : 1957 |
Genre | : Short stories, Russian |
ISBN | : |
An Accidental Family
Author | : Fyodor Dostoyevsky |
Publisher | : Oxford University Press, USA |
Total Pages | : 652 |
Release | : 1994 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : |
Set in the 1870s, a time of social disorder in Russia, An Accidental Family is the story of Arkady Dolgoruky, an awkward, illegitimate twenty-year-old on a desperate search for his family. This new translation of Dostoevsky's last completed novel fully captures the raciness and youthful vigor of the original text, and expresses "the innermost spiritual world of someone on the eve of manhood at that tumultuous time."
An Honest Thief and Other Short Stories
Author | : Fyodor Dostoevsky |
Publisher | : Read Books Ltd |
Total Pages | : 236 |
Release | : 2019-02-08 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 1528786203 |
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.