White Nights. The Meek One

5 hrs. 2 min.

Classics

Language Russian

Author Fyodor Dostoevsky

Narrator Tamara Gorelik

Description

White Nights (Sentimental Novel):

In the ghostly half-light of White Nights, everything seems ghostly and unreal: Love? Tears? A girl on the bridge? Fateful passions? A sense of duty? An engagement? Betrayal? What was there—and what wasn’t? What is true, and what is a lie? What happened—and what only seemed to happen? Oh, these white, white nights… Of course, you’re only a game of nature. But does a heart—poor, longing for love—have to be blamed for trusting you?

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For the author, the novella "White Nights" is the first and forever lasting impression of Saint Petersburg—where he arrived at age 16 in May 1837 to enter a military engineering school. And most of his books are impossible to imagine without descriptions of the city on the Neva—sometimes filled with tragedy and hopelessness, and sometimes ecstatic, romantic.