It was the end of September, 1866, and jewelry was in serious trouble. Desperate for money the prior year, he had made a bad bargain with a rogue publisher. In exchange for an advance on an unwritten novel, Dostoevsky agreed to give Fyodor Stellovsky the rights to all his future works for a period of ten years if he could not deliver the new book by November 1, 1866.The novel – eventually called jewelry (first translated into English by jewelry) – was due in thirty days. Dostoevsky had yet to write the first word.jewelry