The Crocodile

By Dostoevsky, Fyodor

Book Id: WPLBN0000677396
Format Type: PDF eBook
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Reproduction Date: 2005

Title:	The Crocodile
Author:	Dostoevsky, Fyodor
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Language:	English
Subject:	Philosophy, Philosophy & politics, Literature & philosophy
Collections:	Penn State University's Electronic Classics Series Collection
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Publisher:	Penn State University's Electronic Classics


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Excerpt
Excerpt: On the thirteenth of January of this present year, 1865, at halfpast twelve in the day, Elena Ivanovna, the wife of my cultured friend Ivan Matveitch, who is a colleague in the same department, and may be said to be a distant relation of mine, too, expressed the desire to see the crocodile now on view at a fixed charge in the Arcade. As Ivan Matveitch had already in his pocket his ticket for a tour abroad (not so much for the sake of his health as for the improvement of his mind), and was consequently free from his official duties and had nothing whatever to do that morning, he offered no objection to his wife?s irresistible fancy, but was positively aflame with curiosity himself.