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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: €16.99

Digital: €4.99

Original publication
1877
Monolingual
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

Spotkanie nad kanałem. W pierwszym opowiadaniu młody mężczyzna od ośmiu lat mieszka samotnie w Petersburgu. Zna każdą ulicę, ale prawie nikogo. Pewnej letniej nocy widzi dziewczynę, która płacze, oparta o balustradę…

The world of the book

Miasto białych nocy. Petersburg to wielkie miasto na północy Rosji, zbudowane nad morzem, z kanałami i mostami na każdym kroku. W czerwcu słońce ledwie zachodzi: noc pozostaje jasna, prawie jak dzień. Nazywa się je…

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