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    White Nights
    White Nights
    White Nights
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    White Nights

    Written by Fyodor Dostoyevsky

    Narrated by Deaver Brown

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    "White Nights" is the third major Dostoyevsky short story everyone should read, "A Faint Heart" and "The Christmas Tree & Wedding" being the other two. This is a series of Winesburg, Ohio like moments where a woman and man meet accidentally on the First Night; proceed to meet again on the Second and Third, almost fall in love, and at the last minute the former lover of the woman returns to take her away. But, the point is the man had a moment, a glorious moment, for the first time in his life when he had something special. Was that enough? That is the final question the author leaves us with.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherSimply Magazine Inc.
    Release dateApr 28, 2011
    ISBN9781614961307
    Author

    Fyodor Dostoyevsky

    Fyodor Dostoyevsky (1821–1881) was a Russian novelist and philosopher whose works examined the human psyche of the nineteenth century. Dostoyevsky is considered one of the greatest writers in world literature, with titles such as Crime and Punishment; Notes from Underground, one of the first existential novellas ever written; and Poor Folk, Russia’s first “social novel.”

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    • 4/5
      "My night ended with the morning"The narrator is a lonely, incorregible dreamer who meets and falls in love with a young woman during one of his nightly walks in St Petersburg. The problem is that she is betrothed to another man, who left for Moscow a year earlier and who is imminently due to return with a marriage proposal. Over the course of a few nights, the protagonists bare their soul to each other. This chance encounter will change the life of both of them. Like Goethe’s Werther, Dostoyevsky’s narrator is an inherently tragic figure who would probably find little sympathy in the cynical world we live in. The same can be said for the prose, which might seem overindulgent and overtly dramatic. But what an enjoyable read for nostalgic romantics!
    • 2/5
      The sound quality and narration is extremely poor. At many points, it’s extremely difficult to understand where the sentences ended. The narrator seems in rush to finish one sentence after the other in one breath.
    • 5/5
      Beautiful psychological and philosophical portray of love and lovers in a dilemma
    • 4/5
      This volume contains the following:
      'White Nights'
      'Notes from the Underground'
      'A Faint Heart'
      'A Christmas Tree and a Wedding'
      'Polzunkov'
      'A Little Hero'
      'Mr. Prohartchin'

      I found Notes from the Underground the most difficult and least interesting of these stories. White Nights, A Faint Heart, and A Little Hero were charming and the others were good. Overall I would recommend this as an introduction to Dostoyevsky.
    • 3/5
      A man and young woman meet when he helps her get away form a man following her. They begin meeting in the evenings, walking, and talking. He is shy and very alone, she lives with her elderly grandmother and is on a tight leash.They walk and talk, and she then confesses she is waiting for a former lodger to return to marry her--meanwhile, the narrator is in love. When it appears the man is not returning, these two agree to marry.It goes exactly where you think. Very predictable and so melodramatic!
    • 4/5
      This was the first book by Dostoyevsky I've read, and it was far less dreary than I had expected. The content isn't all sunshine and roses but it's a pleasant little read.
    • 4/5
      My God, a moment of bliss. Why, isn't that enough for a whole lifetime?

      White Nights is a sense-stirring cocktail of human failure. Leave it to Uncle Fyodor to delver such a wrenching tale of humiliation, albiet one splashed with a chance love and a lather of anguished poetry Insomniacs gather like moths. Chivalry and hormones lead to an effusion of dialogue. Maybe one should erect a filter when cold-calling pedestrians ambling along the Neva. Slinking slyly, the mad couple burst into tears and nearly wet themselves with serial about-faces. You just have to dig that.
    • 5/5
      A beautiful story about unrequited love.
    • 4/5
      Two short writings from Dostoyevsky. Melancholy, passion, pain and black humour with the eyes of a genius.
    • 4/5
      In this Danish translation the volume includes White Nights, The Landlady and A Little Hero - two novellas and one short story. The two novellas are in a way portraits of Dostoevskys typical “hero”. Young, poor, lonely, hypersensitive men, with deep longings and itching with restlessness.Both in White Nights and The Landlady the young men are falling in love with women who are already engaged (White Night) or married (The Landlady). White Night is poetic and beautifully written, The Landlady mystical and deeply psychological.Reading Dostoevsky work is a challenge but also rewarding. Not easy litterature, but I’m amazed at how strong an impression his stories have on me is.
    • 5/5
      Only the second work I've read by Dostoyevky(the first was "A Little Hero"), and both were interesting portrayals of individuals trough simple social settings. This one created more of a resonance with me, particularly in the description of the "dreamer".
      What surprised me the most is the way Dostoyevsky pushes the feelings of romance to almost unbearable(and unrealistic) plateaus, and yet retains it firmly subsided and believable.

      A great read.
    • 5/5
      Early Dostoevsky. Main character is very recognizable; the ending is surprisingly comical (of course it is also very sad). Might work as a Hollywood movie.
    • 3/5
      A portuguese translation of Bélie Nótchi, this short story is really a much too romantic literary piece of work for my taste, but being very short one can finish it quite quickly...