A Gentle Creature and Other Stories
White Nights; A Gentle Creature; The Dream of a Ridiculous Man
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- Paperback
160 pages
- Release Date
25 March 2009
Summary
In the stories in this volume Dostoevsky explores both the figure of the dreamer divorced from reality and also his own ambiguous attitude to utopianism, themes central to many of his great novels.
In White Nights the apparent idyll of the dreamer’s romantic fantasies disguises profound loneliness and estrangement from ‘living life’. Despite his sentimental friendship with Nastenka, his final withdrawal into the world of the imagination anticipates the retreat into the ‘under…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780199555086 |
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| ISBN-10: | 0199555087 |
| Author: | Fyodor Dostoevsky, Alan Myers, W.J. Leatherbarrow |
| Publisher: | Oxford University Press |
| Imprint: | Oxford University Press |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 160 |
| Release Date: | 25 March 2009 |
| Weight: | 118g |
| Dimensions: | 8mm x 129mm x 195mm |
| Series: | Oxford World's Classics |
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Critics Review
The new translations read smoothly, and Professor William Leatherbarrow’s introductory essay is helpfully informative.
`The new translations read smoothly, and Professor William Leatherbarrow’s introductory essay is helpfully informative.‘Sunday Telegraph
Fyodor Dostoevsky
Alan Myers is a freelance translator. W. J. Leatherbrow is Reader in Russian at Sheffield University. The same team worked on Dostoevsky’s The Idiot in World’s Classics.
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