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Book

White nights

Call Number

  • FICTION DOST (CEN)

Languages

Translated from the Russian.

Publication Information

[London] : Penguin Classics, an imprint of Penguin Books, 2023.

Physical Description

234 pages ; 17 cm

Summary

Regarded as one of world literature's foremost novelists, Fyodor Dostoevsky's short stories are also some of the best ever written. "White Nights" tells of love and loss on the streets of St. Petersburg, "A Nasty Business" presents the hilarious tale of a general dropping in on the wedding of a subordinate, while "The Meek One" is an existentialist tale of marriage and tragedy.

Notes

"White nights" first published 1848; "A nasty business" in 1862; and "The meek one" in 1876.

First published in this translation in "The gambler and other stories," Penguin Classics, 2010.

Contents

  • A Nasty business
  • The Meek one
  • White nights.

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