The Crocodile and Other Stories (riverrun Editions) - Dostoevsky's Finest Short Stories in the Timeless Translations of Constance Garnett

Fyodor Dostoevsky; Michael Wood (Introduction by)

'I have always been ridiculous, and I have known it, perhaps from the hour I was born'   A man goes mad because he is happy. A civil servant behaves like a monster at a wedding-party. A man is swallowed by a crocodile, but not eaten nor seriously damaged. Dostoevsky's stories inhabit similarly volcanic ...