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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

运河边的相遇。在第一个故事里,一个年轻人在圣彼得堡独自生活了八年。他熟悉每一条街,却几乎不认识什么人。一个夏夜,他看见一位少女靠着运河的栏杆哭泣。他保护她摆脱了一个纠缠的路人,并送她回家。她答应第二天再见他,但有一个条件。

The world of the book

白夜之城。圣彼得堡是俄罗斯北部的大城市,建在海边,到处是运河和桥。六月里,太阳几乎不落:夜晚依旧明亮,几乎像白天。人们称之为“白夜”。夏天,富裕人家都去乡下,城市变得空荡荡。第一个故事里的幻想者便独自在城里漫游,一连好几天。

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