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White Nights

A Fyodor Dostoyevsky Short Story

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White Nights

By: Fyodor Dostoevsky
Narrated by: Deaver Brown
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"White Nights" is the third major Dostoyevsky short story everyone should read or listen to, along with "A Faint Heart" and "The Christmas Tree and Wedding". The story contains a series of Winesburg, Ohio-like moments: a woman and man meet accidentally on the First Night; proceed to meet again on the Second and Third, almost fall in love, and at the last minute the former lover of the woman returns to take her away. But the point is that the man had a moment, a glorious moment when, for the first time in his life, he had something special. Was that enough? That is the question the author leaves us with.

Public Domain (P)2011 Christina Brown
Anthologies Anthologies & Short Stories Classics Fiction Short Stories Heartfelt

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It's a real shame that this wonderful story is barely given the time of day by the reader. He races through it without expression, and virtually without drawing breath. Avoid this version

Great book, badly read.

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