Another Man's Wife and a Husband Under the Bed

A witty novel from Dostoevsky’s early works. New facets of the writer’s personality.

A very unusual Dostoevsky.

Dostoevsky is not only (and not so much) tragic—he is also ironic, cheerful, touching, and even sentimental.

“Small-form” Dostoevsky—master of topical plots, comic situations, and clever dialogues.

Dostoevsky in the beginning of his literary journey—before the “Great Five-Book” period.

“Someone else’s wife and the husband under the bed”—without this work, it’s impossible to understand Dostoevsky. After all, precisely in it the philosophical-moral and socio-psychological creative motive first appeared—out of which later grew “The Brothers Karamazov,” “The Idiot,” “Demons,” and other novels.