"Honest Thief" - the product of the classic of Russian literature and one of the best novelists of world level, FM Dostoevsky (1821-1881). *** The concepts of "honest" and "thief" are incompatible. However, the author achieves the effect of surprise. First he says that there are no honest thieves, but then comes the story of the "honest man" who was so until he became a "thief". The writer examines the psychological nature of people. Dostoevsky created many other remarkable novels and novels - The Idiot, The Brothers Karamazov, The Possessed, The Poor People, The Humiliated and Injured, The Gambler, The White Nights, The Meek, The Boy from Christ on the tree, "" Eternal Husband. " The significance of Dostoevsky's work for world literature and philosophy is difficult to overestimate. It can be called without exaggeration the most famous and readable Russian writer who gained fame not only because of the artistic merits of his prose, but also because of their philosophical and moral content.