Short Stories

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Dostoyevsky, Fyodor, 1821-1881

Language:

English

Physical Description:

1 online resource : multiple file formats

Place of Publication:

Salt Lake City, UT : Project Gutenberg,

Summary:

"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.)

Contents:

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.

Credits:

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)

Notes:

Reading ease score: 81.7 (6th grade). Easy to read.

Release date is 2012-09-13