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Stockholm : Norstedt, 1928
Description
46 new books in the bestselling Little Black Classics series, to celebrate the first ever Penguin Classic in 1946My God! A whole minute of bliss! Is that really so little for the whole of a man's life?
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LibraryThing member ctpress
In this Danish translation the volume includes White Nights, The Landlady and A Little Hero - two novellas and one short story.
The two novellas are in a way portraits of Dostoevskys typical “hero”. Young, poor, lonely, hypersensitive men, with deep longings and itching with restlessness.
Both
White Night is poetic and beautifully written, The Landlady mystical and deeply psychological.
Reading Dostoevsky work is a challenge but also rewarding. Not easy litterature, but I’m amazed at how strong an impression his stories have on me is.
The two novellas are in a way portraits of Dostoevskys typical “hero”. Young, poor, lonely, hypersensitive men, with deep longings and itching with restlessness.
Both
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in White Nights and The Landlady the young men are falling in love with women who are already engaged (White Night) or married (The Landlady). White Night is poetic and beautifully written, The Landlady mystical and deeply psychological.
Reading Dostoevsky work is a challenge but also rewarding. Not easy litterature, but I’m amazed at how strong an impression his stories have on me is.
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LibraryThing member FPdC
A portuguese translation of Bélie Nótchi, this short story is really a much too romantic literary piece of work for my taste, but being very short one can finish it quite quickly...
LibraryThing member ludovicofischer
Early Dostoevsky. Main character is very recognizable; the ending is surprisingly comical (of course it is also very sad). Might work as a Hollywood movie.
LibraryThing member ricardob
Only the second work I've read by Dostoyevky(the first was "A Little Hero"), and both were interesting portrayals of individuals trough simple social settings. This one created more of a resonance with me, particularly in the description of the "dreamer".
What surprised me the most is the way
A great read.
What surprised me the most is the way
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Dostoyevsky pushes the feelings of romance to almost unbearable(and unrealistic) plateaus, and yet retains it firmly subsided and believable.A great read.
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LibraryThing member TheCrow2
Two short writings from Dostoyevsky. Melancholy, passion, pain and black humour with the eyes of a genius.
LibraryThing member ReneePaule
A beautiful story about unrequited love.
LibraryThing member jonfaith
My God, a moment of bliss. Why, isn't that enough for a whole lifetime?
White Nights is a sense-stirring cocktail of human failure. Leave it to Uncle Fyodor to delver such a wrenching tale of humiliation, albiet one splashed with a chance love and a lather of anguished poetry Insomniacs gather like
White Nights is a sense-stirring cocktail of human failure. Leave it to Uncle Fyodor to delver such a wrenching tale of humiliation, albiet one splashed with a chance love and a lather of anguished poetry Insomniacs gather like
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moths. Chivalry and hormones lead to an effusion of dialogue. Maybe one should erect a filter when cold-calling pedestrians ambling along the Neva. Slinking slyly, the mad couple burst into tears and nearly wet themselves with serial about-faces. You just have to dig that. Show Less
LibraryThing member AngelaJMaher
This was the first book by Dostoyevsky I've read, and it was far less dreary than I had expected. The content isn't all sunshine and roses but it's a pleasant little read.
LibraryThing member Dreesie
A man and young woman meet when he helps her get away form a man following her. They begin meeting in the evenings, walking, and talking. He is shy and very alone, she lives with her elderly grandmother and is on a tight leash.
They walk and talk, and she then confesses she is waiting for a former
It goes exactly where you think.
Very predictable and so melodramatic!
They walk and talk, and she then confesses she is waiting for a former
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lodger to return to marry her--meanwhile, the narrator is in love. When it appears the man is not returning, these two agree to marry.It goes exactly where you think.
Very predictable and so melodramatic!
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LibraryThing member leslie.98
This volume contains the following:
'White Nights'
'Notes from the Underground'
'A Faint Heart'
'A Christmas Tree and a Wedding'
'Polzunkov'
'A Little Hero'
'Mr. Prohartchin'
I found Notes from the Underground the most difficult and least interesting of these stories. White Nights, A Faint Heart, and A
'White Nights'
'Notes from the Underground'
'A Faint Heart'
'A Christmas Tree and a Wedding'
'Polzunkov'
'A Little Hero'
'Mr. Prohartchin'
I found Notes from the Underground the most difficult and least interesting of these stories. White Nights, A Faint Heart, and A
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Little Hero were charming and the others were good. Overall I would recommend this as an introduction to Dostoyevsky. Show Less
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Original publication date
1848