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A Bad Business

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A stunning new edition featuring fresh translations of six of this classic Russian writer's most thrilling short stories in a beautiful Pushkin Collection edition.

This vivid collection of new translations by Nicolas Pasternak Slater and Maya Slater illuminates Dostoevsky's dazzling versatility as a writer.
 
His remarkable short fiction swings from wickedly sharp humour to gripping psychological intensity, from cynical social mockery to moments of unexpected tenderness.
 
The stories in this collection range from impossible fantasy to scorching satire.

  • A civil servant finds a new passion for his work when he's swallowed alive by a crocodile.
  • A struggling writer stumbles on a cemetery where the dead still talk to each other.
  • An arrogant but well-intentioned gentleman provokes an uproar at an aide's wedding, and in the marital bed.
  • A young boy finds unexpected salvation on a cold and desolate Christmas Eve.
  • About This Edition

    ISBN: 9781782276739
    Publication date: 4th November 2021
    Author: Fyodor Dostoyevsky
    Publisher: Pushkin Press an imprint of Steerforth Press
    Format: Paperback
    Pagination: 224 pages
    Series: Essential Stories
    Genres: Shorter Reads
    Classic fiction: general and literary
    General Fiction