White Nights and other stories
Sinopse
"There are, Nastenka, though you may not know it, strange nooks in Petersburg ... the same sun as shines for all Petersburg people does not peep into those spots ..."<br/>White Nights and other stories presents Fyodor Dostoevsky’s three most powerful short stories, exploring loneliness and love, the spitefulness of human relations, and one man’s profound spiritual crisis. In White Nights, a solitary dreamer meets a young woman over four summer nights, during which they revel in the beauty and pain of connection. In Bobok, a man overhears the chatter of the dead and their continuing torments beyond the grave. In The Dream of a Ridiculous Man, a suicidal nihilist dreams of a world untouched by corruption, then awakes to make a decision.<br/>Featured in this edition from Socotra Books: Subtle updates to the classic translations by Constance Garnett improve clarity for the modern reader. Comprehensive footnotes explain cultural references from Dostoevsky’s time and specialized or less-familiar vocabulary. A biography of the turbulent life of Fyodor Dostoevsky.<br/><br/>White Nights and other stories is part of Socotra Books’ expanding series of classic short texts that entertain, intrigue and inspire. Written over a period of thirty years, these contrasting works highlight Dostoevsky’s extraordinary inventiveness in exploring some of life’s strangest contradictions: solitude and connection, respectability and depravity, despair and redemption.
Sinopse
"There are, Nastenka, though you may not know it, strange nooks in Petersburg ... the same sun as shines for all Petersburg people does not peep into those spots ..."<br/>White Nights and other stories presents Fyodor Dostoevsky’s three most powerful short stories, exploring loneliness and love, the spitefulness of human relations, and one man’s profound spiritual crisis. In White Nights, a solitary dreamer meets a young woman over four summer nights, during which they revel in the beauty and pain of connection. In Bobok, a man overhears the chatter of the dead and their continuing torments beyond the grave. In The Dream of a Ridiculous Man, a suicidal nihilist dreams of a world untouched by corruption, then awakes to make a decision.<br/>Featured in this edition from Socotra Books: Subtle updates to the classic translations by Constance Garnett improve clarity for the modern reader. Comprehensive footnotes explain cultural references from Dostoevsky’s time and specialized or less-familiar vocabulary. A biography of the turbulent life of Fyodor Dostoevsky.<br/><br/>White Nights and other stories is part of Socotra Books’ expanding series of classic short texts that entertain, intrigue and inspire. Written over a period of thirty years, these contrasting works highlight Dostoevsky’s extraordinary inventiveness in exploring some of life’s strangest contradictions: solitude and connection, respectability and depravity, despair and redemption.