The book most fully presents the stories and short stories of F. M. Dostoevsky in all their diversity, including those written with a genuine sense of humor. The author shows extraordinary skill in describing comic episodes from life and makes the reader laugh merrily at the shortcomings of his characters and the comic nature of situations. In the stories, the author's talent sparkled with new facets: a master of short stories and fantastic plots. What remains unchanged is the author's subtle, deep psychologism, which has become an integral feature of all Dostoevsky's works.

a fair story about how one gentleman, of a certain age and a certain appearance, was swallowed alive by a passage crocodile, all without a trace, and that it came out of this