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    The Honest Thief
    The Honest Thief
    The Honest Thief
    Audiobook30 minutes

    The Honest Thief

    Written by Fyodor Dostoyevsky

    Narrated by Cathy Dobson

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    About this audiobook

    Fyodor Dostoyevsky (1822-1881) was Russia's greatest mystic who wrote of the contest between the rebellious uncertain human and the mystery of divine omnipresence which is revealed to the enlightened in the midst of life's bitterest wrongs and suffering.

    His work is defined by a pity and compassion that shines from all his writing. "The Honest Thief" is one of Dostoyevsky's tale's of pity, in which he reveals that compassionate sympathy of the Russian mind for all suffering, the pure and noble conscience awakened in the spirit of a fallen man. The central relationship - between the poor peasant and the even poorer old alcoholic tramp who he has taken into his home - is beautifully described and characterized, as they go from a reluctant emerging friendship, through frustration and mistrust, to the final and tragic reconciliation.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherRed Door Consulting
    Release dateJun 6, 2014
    ISBN9781467681780
    The Honest Thief
    Author

    Fyodor Dostoyevsky

    Fyodor Dostoyevsky (1821–1881) was a Russian novelist and philosopher whose works examined the human psyche of the nineteenth century. Dostoyevsky is considered one of the greatest writers in world literature, with titles such as Crime and Punishment; Notes from Underground, one of the first existential novellas ever written; and Poor Folk, Russia’s first “social novel.”

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    • 3/5
      Far behind other author's works in terms of quality :
    • 3/5
      Kind of nice, not the best I've read of him.
    • 2/5
      The author succeeds in depicting a self-contradictory theif, that is meek and sensitive