Fyodor Dostoyevsky

THE MEEK ONE

A Fantastic Story

Translated by Ronald Meyer

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This edition published in Penguin Classics 2015

Translation copyright © Ronald Mayer, 2010

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ISBN: 978-0-141-39749-8

Contents

CHAPTER 1

CHAPTER 2

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FYODOR DOSTOYEVSKY

Born 1821, Moscow, Russia

Died 1881, Saint Petersburg, Russia

The story was first published in its original Russian as ‘Krotkaya’ in 1876 and is taken from the The Gambler and Other Stories.

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THE BEGINNING

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