Another Man's Wife and the Husband under the Bed

Another Man's Wife and the Husband under the Bed is a short story by Fyodor Dostoyevsky, first published in 1848. It is an early Russian work, built around a domestic situation that turns awkward and tense, with a focus on marriage, suspicion, and social discomfort rather than on an expansive plot. The title already gives a good sense of its off-balance mood and of the kind of everyday setting Dostoyevsky uses here.

This is a good fit for readers who want a quick entry point into Dostoyevsky without taking on one of his longer novels. It may also appeal to anyone interested in 19th-century Russian fiction and in stories that turn a small interior situation into psychological pressure. The book sits close to Dostoyevsky's wider preoccupation with unease, embarrassment, and the fragility of human relationships, but in a much more compact form.