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White Nights · A Gentle Creature · The Dream of a Ridiculous Man

Fyodor Dostoevsky

White Nights · A Gentle Creature · The Dream of a Ridiculous Man

Paper book: €19.99

Digital: €7.99

Original publication
1877
Bilingual edition
22 October 2026
Pages
320
Difficulty
Medium
Genres
Romance, Psychology, Philosophy
Moods
Fall in love, Be moved to tears, Think it through
Translated from
Russian

Book summary

Three stories by Dostoevsky. In “White Nights”, a lonely young dreamer meets, four evenings in a row in the bright nights of St Petersburg, a young woman who is waiting for someone. In “A Gentle Creature”, a man keeps watch over the body of his young wife and tries to understand. In “The Dream of a Ridiculous Man”, a man in despair falls asleep and has a dream that changes everything.

Tender, tragic or visionary, they show another side of the great Russian novelist.

You can read each of these short stories in one sitting in the language you are learning.

The plot

A meeting by a canal. In the first story, a young man has been living alone in Saint Petersburg for eight years. He knows every street, but almost no one. One summer night he sees a girl crying, leaning on the railing…

The world of the book

The city of white nights. Saint Petersburg is a large city in northern Russia, built beside the sea, with canals and bridges everywhere. In June the sun barely sets: the night stays bright, almost like day. They are…

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