Complete and unabridged, with 55 full-page plates by Edvard Munch, Vladimir Makovsky and Vasily Perov. Dostoevsky at short range: an honest thief who cannot stop stealing from the man who shelters him, a beggar boy's Christmas Eve, the peasant who once comforted a frightened child, a civil servant swallowed alive by a crocodile and carrying on his career from inside it, and the dream of a ridiculous man who had meant to shoot himself. These are the sketches around the great novels — the same fevers, in rooms small enough to see all four walls. Fifty-five plates by painters including Fedotov and Perov bring the same cramped rooms and rank-obsessed officials to the page, from 1820 to 1925.