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Gentle Creature and Other Stories: White Nights; A Gentle Creature; And the Dream of a Ridiculous Man
Gentle Creature and Other Stories: White Nights; A Gentle Creature; And the Dream of a Ridiculous Man | Fyodor Mikhailovich Dostoevsky
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In these stories, Dostoevsky explores both the figure of the dreamer divorced from reality, and also his own ambiguous attitude toward utopianism, themes central to his great novels. In White Nights, the apparent idyll of the dreamer's romantic fantasies disguises profound loneliness and estrangement from "living life." A Gentle Creature and The Dream of a Ridiculous Man show how withdrawal from reality can end in spiritual desolation as well as moral indifference, and how, in Dostoevsky's view, the tragedy of the alienated individual can only be resolved by the rediscovery of a sense of compassion and responsibility toward other people. No other edition brings together these specific stories--which are most interesting when read alongside one another--and the new translations capture all the power and lyricism of Dostoevsky's writing at tis best.
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This book contains three short stories. “A Gentle Creature” is a sad story of a young woman who was orphaned and is married off to an older man with some love and other unfortunate events. “White Nights” is another sad pseudo love story of a painfully introverted man. “Dreams of a Ridiculous Man” is a little cheerier, also the reason I got this book after reading Master and Margarita, which is supposed to be inspired from this story.

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Mystic.Archives.Of.Dantalian
Mystic.Archives.Of.Dantalian
Gentle Creature and Other Stories: White Nights; A Gentle Creature; And the Dream of a Ridiculous Man | Fyodor Mikhailovich Dostoevsky
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A despotic pawnbroker marries a desperate young woman selling her dead parent's possessions. Then turns into a monologue of a man whose wife has just died. His thoughts churn around and around in his head, and he tries everything to be absolved from his own blame.

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Mystic.Archives.Of.Dantalian
Mystic.Archives.Of.Dantalian
Gentle Creature and Other Stories: White Nights; A Gentle Creature; And the Dream of a Ridiculous Man | Fyodor Mikhailovich Dostoevsky
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Chapter VII 📔

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Mystic.Archives.Of.Dantalian
Mystic.Archives.Of.Dantalian
Gentle Creature and Other Stories: White Nights; A Gentle Creature; And the Dream of a Ridiculous Man | Fyodor Mikhailovich Dostoevsky
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Chapter VII 📔

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Mystic.Archives.Of.Dantalian
Mystic.Archives.Of.Dantalian
Gentle Creature and Other Stories: White Nights; A Gentle Creature; And the Dream of a Ridiculous Man | Fyodor Mikhailovich Dostoevsky
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Chapter VI 📔.. Steady pace

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Mystic.Archives.Of.Dantalian
Mystic.Archives.Of.Dantalian
Gentle Creature and Other Stories: White Nights; A Gentle Creature; And the Dream of a Ridiculous Man | Fyodor Mikhailovich Dostoevsky
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Chapter V 📔

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Mystic.Archives.Of.Dantalian
Mystic.Archives.Of.Dantalian
Gentle Creature and Other Stories: White Nights; A Gentle Creature; And the Dream of a Ridiculous Man | Fyodor Mikhailovich Dostoevsky
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Chapter III 📔

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Mystic.Archives.Of.Dantalian
Mystic.Archives.Of.Dantalian
Gentle Creature and Other Stories: White Nights; A Gentle Creature; And the Dream of a Ridiculous Man | Fyodor Mikhailovich Dostoevsky
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Chapter III 📔 Looks like i'm on the run🏃🏻💨

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Mystic.Archives.Of.Dantalian
Mystic.Archives.Of.Dantalian
Gentle Creature and Other Stories: White Nights; A Gentle Creature; And the Dream of a Ridiculous Man | Fyodor Mikhailovich Dostoevsky
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Chapter I 📔

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Mystic.Archives.Of.Dantalian
Mystic.Archives.Of.Dantalian
Gentle Creature and Other Stories: White Nights; A Gentle Creature; And the Dream of a Ridiculous Man | Fyodor Mikhailovich Dostoevsky
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Chapter I 📔

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Mystic.Archives.Of.Dantalian
Mystic.Archives.Of.Dantalian
Gentle Creature and Other Stories: White Nights; A Gentle Creature; And the Dream of a Ridiculous Man | Fyodor Mikhailovich Dostoevsky
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Just started... A Gentle Creature 📖

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