"An Honest Thief" is an 1848 short story by Dostoevsky. Fyodor Dostoevsky. ...

Dostoyevsky's fondness of the works of Charles Dickens is show in An Honest Thief. As an already acclaimed author, Dostoyevsky, admiting his debt as a writer to Gogol, penned a short story involving one of his most tragic characters. Yemelyan, an abject drunkard, cannot maintain sobriety whether he realizes alcohol's evil or not and it is this, the inability of Yemelyan to save himself, that Dostoyevsky creates an astounding and tragic short story. Dickens was a prolific writer who was almost always working on a new installment for a story and rarely missed a deadline. ... Nikolai Vasilevich Gogol (Russian: Николай Васильевич Гоголь) (March 31, 1809 - March 4, 1852) was a Ukrainian-born Russian writer. ... This article or section should be merged with intoxication Drunkenness, in its most common usage, is the state of being intoxicated with alcohol (i. ...

Beyond this, the obvious paradox contained within the title is clarified in a dying abjuration.