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SHORT STORIES By Fiodor Dostoievski

CONTENTS An Honest Thief 1 A Novel in Nine Letters 21 An Unpleasant Predicament 36 Another Man's Wife 101 The Heavenly Christmas Tree 151 The Peasant Marey 156 The Crocodile 163 Bobok 205 The Dream of a Ridiculous Man 225

STAVROGIN'S CONFESSION AND THE PLAN OF THE LIFE OF A GREAT SINNER By F. M. Dostoevsky Translated By S. S. Koteliansky And Virginia Woolf

CONTENTS PAGE Translators' Note 5 New MSS. of F. M. Dostoevsky: Note by the Russian Government 9 Stavrogin's Confession. By F. M. Dostoevsky 17 The Plan of The Life of a Great Sinner. By F. M. Dostoevsky 85 Stavrogin's Meeting with Tikhon. By V. Friche 115 Introduction to the Unpublished Chapter of The Possessed. By V. Komarovich 125 The Unfulfilled Idea: Note on The Life of a Great Sinner. By N. Brodsky 145 Footnotes 171