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Ivan Matveich urges the narrator to arrange for the crocodile to be purchased and cut open, but the owner asks so much for it that nothing is done. As the story ends Elena Ivanovna is contemplating divorce and Ivan Matveich resolves to carry on his work as a civil servant as best he can from inside the crocodile.
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to see a crocodile that has been put on display by a German entrepreneur. After teasing the crocodile, Ivan Matveich is swallowed alive. He finds the inside of the crocodile to be quite comfortable, and the animal's owner refuses to allow it to be cut open, in spite of the pleas from Elena Ivanovna.
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Short story
Fyodor Dostoyevsky
Russian
Short story
Epoch
Magazine
Russian
short story
Fyodor Dostoyevsky
Epoch
satire
Passage
Nevsky Avenue
ISBN
9781258369033
The Literature Network
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Text, comments, and footnotes in Russian
The Crocodile
LibriVox
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Fyodor Dostoevsky
Bibliography
Letters
Themes
Poor Folk
The Double
Netochka Nezvanova

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