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    Another Man's Wife And A Husband Under The Bed: A Humorous Story of Love Triangle (by the author of Crime and Punishment, The Brothers Karamazov, The Idiot, The House of the Dead, The Possessed and The Gambler)
    Another Man's Wife And A Husband Under The Bed: A Humorous Story of Love Triangle (by the author of Crime and Punishment, The Brothers Karamazov, The Idiot, The House of the Dead, The Possessed and The Gambler)
    Another Man's Wife And A Husband Under The Bed: A Humorous Story of Love Triangle (by the author of Crime and Punishment, The Brothers Karamazov, The Idiot, The House of the Dead, The Possessed and The Gambler)
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    Another Man's Wife And A Husband Under The Bed: A Humorous Story of Love Triangle (by the author of Crime and Punishment, The Brothers Karamazov, The Idiot, The House of the Dead, The Possessed and The Gambler)

    By Fyodor Dostoyevsky and Constance Garnett

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    Another Man's Wife and a Husband under the Bed is a humorous short story by Fyodor Dostoyevsky. The novella looks like a cliché of the vaudeville genre. The theme of the love triangle (or rather the polygon, given the number of heroin's lovers), the ridiculous and pathetic adulterer husbands (always much older than their wives), the idea that a young wife is necessarily lying, fickle and unfaithful, many misunderstandings which lead to situations, but also plenty of dialogues, improbabilities and unexpected twists of all sorts give this sketch a look of a "theater of the boulevard".
    Fyodor Dostoyevsky (1821-1881) was a Russian novelist, short story writer, essayist, journalist and philosopher. His literary works explore human psychology in the troubled political, social, and spiritual atmosphere of 19th-century Russia. Many of his works contain a strong emphasis on Christianity, and its message of absolute love, forgiveness and charity, explored within the realm of the individual, confronted with all of life's hardships and beauty. His major works include Crime and Punishment (1866), The Idiot (1869), Demons (1872) and The Brothers Karamazov (1880). Many literary critics rate him as one of the greatest and most prominent psychologists in world literature. His novella Notes from Underground is considered to be one of the first works of existentialist literature.
    LanguageEnglish
    Publishere-artnow
    Release dateMay 24, 2015
    ISBN9788026837213
    Another Man's Wife And A Husband Under The Bed: A Humorous Story of Love Triangle (by the author of Crime and Punishment, The Brothers Karamazov, The Idiot, The House of the Dead, The Possessed and The Gambler)
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    Fyodor Dostoyevsky

    Fyodor Dostoevsky was born in Moscow in 1821. Between 1838 and 1843 he studied at the St Petersburg Engineering Academy. His first work of fiction was the epistolary novel Poor Folk (1846), which met with a generally favourable response. However, his immediately subsequent works were less enthusiastically received. In 1849 Dostoevsky was arrested as a member of the socialist Petrashevsky circle, and subjected to a mock execution. He suffered four years in a Siberian penal settlement and then another four years of enforced military service. He returned to writing in the late 1850s and travelled abroad in the 1860s. It was during the last twenty years of his life that he wrote the iconic works, such as Notes from the Underground (1864), Crime and Punishment (1866), The Idiot (1868) and The Brothers Karamazov (1880), which were to form the basis of his formidable reputation. He died in 1881.

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      Another Man's Wife And A Husband Under The Bed - Fyodor Dostoyevsky

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      Be so kind, sir … allow me to ask you….

      The gentleman so addressed started and looked with some alarm at the gentleman in raccoon furs who had accosted him so abruptly at eight o’clock in the evening in the street. We all know that if a Petersburg gentleman suddenly in the street speaks to another gentleman with whom he is unacquainted, the second gentleman is invariably alarmed.

      And so the gentleman addressed started and was somewhat alarmed.

      Excuse me for troubling you, said the gentleman in raccoon, but I … I really don’t know … you will pardon me, no doubt; you see, I am a little upset….

      Only then the young man in the wadded overcoat observed that this gentleman in the raccoon furs certainly was upset. His wrinkled face was rather pale, his voice was trembling. He was evidently in some confusion of mind, his words did not flow easily from his tongue, and it could be seen that it cost him a terrible effort to present a very humble request to a personage possibly his inferior in rank or condition, in spite of the urgent necessity of addressing his request to somebody. And indeed the request was in any case unseemly, undignified, strange, coming from a man who had such a dignified fur coat, such a respectable jacket of a superb dark green colour, and such distinguished decorations adorning that jacket. It was evident that the gentleman in raccoon was himself confused by all this, so that at last he could not stand it, but made up his mind to suppress his emotion and politely to put an end to the unpleasant position he had himself brought about.

      Excuse me, I am not myself: but it is true you don’t know me … forgive me for disturbing you; I have changed my mind.

      Here, from politeness, he raised his hat and hurried off.

      But allow me….

      The little gentleman had, however, vanished into the darkness, leaving the gentleman in the wadded overcoat in a state of stupefaction.

      What a queer fellow! thought the gentleman in the wadded overcoat. After wondering, as was only natural, and recovering at last from his stupefaction, he bethought him of his own affairs, and began walking to and fro, staring intently at the gates of a house with an endless number of storeys. A fog was beginning to come on, and the young man was somewhat relieved at it, for his walking up and down was less noticeable in the fog, though indeed no one could have noticed him but some cabman who had been waiting all day without a fare.

      Excuse me!

      The young man started again; again the gentleman in raccoon was standing before him.

      Excuse me again .., he began, but you … you are no doubt an honourable man! Take no notice of my social position … but I am getting muddled … look at it as man to man … you see before you, sir, a man craving a humble favour….

      If I can…. What do you want?

      You imagine, perhaps, that I am asking for money, said the mysterious gentleman, with a wry smile, laughing hysterically and turning pale.

      Oh, dear, no.

      No, I see that I am tiresome to you! Excuse me, I cannot bear myself; consider that you are seeing a man in an agitated condition, almost of insanity, and do not draw any conclusion….

      But to the point, to the point, responded the young man, nodding his head encouragingly and impatiently.

      Now think of that! A young man like you reminding me to keep to the point, as though I were some heedless boy! I must certainly be doting!… How do I seem to you in my degrading position? Tell me frankly.

      The young man was overcome with confusion, and said nothing.

      Allow me to ask you openly: have you not seen a lady? That is all that I have to ask you, the gentleman in the raccoon coat said resolutely at last.

      Lady?

      Yes, a lady.

      Yes, I have seen … but I must say lots of them have passed….

      Just so, answered the mysterious gentleman, with a bitter smile. I am muddled, I did not mean to ask that; excuse me, I meant to say, haven’t you seen a lady in a fox fur cape, in a dark velvet hood and a black veil?

      No, I haven’t noticed one like that … no. I think I haven’t seen one.

      "Well, in that case, excuse

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