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White Nights

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Four short stories told by an unnamed dreamer wandering the streets of St. Petersburg at night — a man whose life has been spent in reverie and imagination suddenly finds himself falling for Nastenka, a young woman he meets on a bridge during one of his nocturnal wanderings. Over four nights, their bond deepens as she shares her own story with him; by the end, the truth about her feelings and her future is revealed.

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Russian novelist Fyodor Mikhailovitch Dostoyevsky was a journalist and short-story writer, whose psychological penetration into the human soul profoundly influenced the 20th century novel. Dostoevsky's novels have much autobiographical elements, but ultimately they deal with moral and philosophical questions. He presented interacting characters with contrasting views or ideas about freedom of choice, Socialism, atheisms, good and evil, happiness and so forth. Dostoevsky's central obsession was G...

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