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    An Honest Thief
    An Honest Thief
    An Honest Thief
    Audiobook47 minutes

    An Honest Thief

    Written by Fyodor Dostoyevsky

    Narrated by Elliot Fitzpatrick and Ghizela Rowe

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    Fyodor Mikhailovich Dostoyevsky was born in Moscow on 11th November, 1821 to distinguished multi-ethnic parents from a Lithuanian background.

    His childhood years were at the family home in hospital grounds which also contained an orphanage, an insane asylum and a cemetery for criminals. The young Fyodor often disobeyed his father by talking to the ill in the hospital gardens.

    His health was compromised at age 9 when he experienced his first epileptic fit. By the time he was a teenager both parents had died and he was now enrolled in a military academy where he graduated and eventually became a Lieutenant in 1842. He left military service the next year.

    In 1846 he published his first novel ‘Poor Cow’ to great literary acclaim. His next was unable to emulate that success but his short stories helped provide an income. Life as an author was definitely difficult. As he began his next work he was arrested and incarcerated for treason and participation in the political and literary Petrashevsky Circle. Although the case was weak and unjustified he was sentenced to 4 years of hard labour followed by 5 years of military service in a Siberian regiment.

    Despite the undoubted hardships and setbacks in his life, and whether they helped or hindered his writing, his talents produced many exceptional works of literature including ‘Crime and Punishment’, ‘The Idiot’ and ‘The Brothers Karamazov’.

    Dostoevsky’s ability to get under the skin of his characters and show the inner workings of their mind was hugely influential and ahead of its time. Interwoven with this was the influence of the broader social, spiritual and political forces at work in a person's psyche.

    Fyodor Dostoevsky struggled financially and remained in poor health for much of his adult life. He died from a lung haemorrhage on 9th February, 1881.

    An Honest Thief. In this tale a man buys a down-and-out a drink and so begins a tale of friendship, of manipulation and ultimately of the truth.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherThe Copyright Group
    Release dateMay 11, 2021
    ISBN9781803540818
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    Fyodor Dostoyevsky

    Fyodor Dostoyevsky (1821-1881) was a Russian novelist, essayist, short story writer and journalist. He is considered by literary critics to be not simply the greatest writer in Russian history, but one of the greatest writers of all time. He has been cited by many authors - Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, Anton Chekhov, Friedrich Nietzsche, Albert Camus, and Jean-Paul Sartre among them - as having profoundly influenced their own works. Fyodor was introduced to literature at an early age and was drawn to writing, but he was forced to enter a military academy after the death of his mother. A poor cadet, Fyodor whipped himself into shape after the death of his father and graduated with a strong academic record. His epilepsy was also diagnosed about this time. Upon graduation, Fyodor continued his military career by becoming a lieutenant engineer, but almost immediately began writing as well, completing his first book, "Poor Folk," in 1845. The success of the book encouraged him to continue writing, but as he became involved in politics, he began to into serious trouble with the authorities. Fyodor was imprisoned (and almost executed) for belonging to a progressive literary group that the Tsarist government thought traitorous. He served four years in a labor camp before being released in 1854. Fyodor had a serious gambling addiction and was always in financial straits of one kind or another. He serialized and published "Crime and Punishment" in 1866 and married his second wife, Anna Snikina, shortly afterwards. After an extended, four-year honeymoon, they returned to Russia. By this time, he had completed and published "The Idiot" and had established himself as a leading Russian author. He and Anna published "Demons" in 1873 for the newly founded "Dostoyevsky Publishing Company," and the family finally enjoyed financial stability. As his fame increased, Fyodor's health deteriorated. His epileptic seizures increased but he still continued working, producing what many consider his finest work just prior to his death, publishing "The Brothers Karamazov" in 1880. The following year, Fyodor suffered a series of pulmonary hemorrhages and died at home surrounded by his family.

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