Name: The Crocodile
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Author: Fiódor M. Dostoievski
ISBN: 9781535100793

Type

Physical Book

Author

Fiódor M. Dostoievski

Illustrated by

Andrea Gouveia

Translated by

Andrea Gouveia

Publisher

Createspace

Language

English

Pages

Format

Paperback

Dimensions

22.9 x 15.2 x 0.2 cm

Weight

0.06 kg.

ISBN13

9781535100793

Synopsis "The Crocodile"

"The Crocodile" is a short story by Fyodor Dostoyevsky that was first published in 1865 in his magazine Epoch.The story relates the events that befall one Ivan Matveich when he, his wife Elena Ivanovna, and the narrator visit the Arcade to see a crocodile that has been put on display by a German entrepreneur. After teasing the crocodile, Ivan Matveich is swallowed alive. He finds the inside of the crocodile to be quite comfortable, and the animal's owner refuses to allow it to be cut open, in spite of the pleas from Elena Ivanovna. Ivan Matveich urges the narrator to arrange for the crocodile to be purchased and cut open, but the owner asks so much for it that nothing is done. As the story ends Elena Ivanovna is contemplating divorce and Ivan Matveich resolves to carry on his work as a civil servant as best he can from inside the crocodile.

Fiódor M. Dostoievski

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Fyodor Mikhailovich Dostoevsky (Moscow, November 11, 1821-Saint Petersburg, February 9, 1881) was one of the main writers of Tsarist Russia, whose literature explores human psychology in the complex political, social, and spiritual context of Russian society in the second half of the 19th century

He is considered one of the greatest writers of the West and of world literature.

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