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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

運河邊的相遇。在第一個故事裡,一個年輕人在聖彼得堡獨自生活了八年。他熟悉每一條街,卻幾乎不認識什麼人。一個夏夜,他看見一位少女靠著運河的欄杆哭泣。他保護她擺脫一個糾纏的路人,並送她回家。她答應隔天再見他,但有一個條件。

The world of the book

白夜之城。聖彼得堡是俄羅斯北部的大城市,建在海邊,處處是運河和橋。六月裡,太陽幾乎不落:夜晚依舊明亮,幾乎像白天。人們稱之為「白夜」。夏天,富裕人家都去鄉下,城市變得空蕩蕩。第一個故事裡的幻想者便獨自在城裡漫遊,一連好幾天。

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