An Honest Thief

and other stories

The Novels of Fyodor Dostoevsky

Translated from the Russian by Constance Garnett, Crown 8vo,

the brothers karamazov

the idiot

the possessed

crime and punishment

the house of the dead

the insulted and injured

a raw youth

the eternal husband

the gambler and other stories

white nights

an honest thief

the friend of the family

Fyodor Dostoevsky

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and other stories

Translated from
the Russian by

Constance Garnett

William Heinemann Ltd

Melbourne . London . Toronto

first published 1919

reprinted 1923

new impression 1950

reprinted (reset) 1957

printed in great britain

at the windmill press

kingswood, surrey

Contents

Page

An Honest Thief 1

Uncle’s Dream 21

A Novel in Nine letters 179

An Unpleasant Predicament 194

Another Man’s Wife 258

The Heavenly Christmas Tree 308

The Peasant Marey 313

The Crocodile 320

Bobok 362

The Dream of a Ridiculous Man 382