Lonely Hearts Will Recognise This Brief Classic
Loneliness and romantic yearning give this brief classic its lasting ache. White Nights captures fleeting connection and imagined futures with remarkable concentration, showing how much feeling can gather around a moment that cannot last. The brevity makes the longing sharper.
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Lonely Hearts Will Recognise This Brief Classic
Loneliness and romantic yearning give this brief classic its lasting ache. White Nights captures fleeting connection and imagined futures with remarkable concentration, showing how much feeling can gather around a moment that cannot last. The brevity makes the longing sharper.
- Book Synopsis
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'My God! A whole minute of bliss! Is that really so little for the whole of a man's life?'
A poignant tale of love and loneliness from Russia's foremost writer.
One of 46 new books in the bestselling Little Black Classics series, to celebrate the first ever Penguin Classic in 1946. Each book gives readers a taste of the Classics' huge range and diversity, with works from around the world and across the centuries - including fables, decadence, heartbreak, tall tales, satire, ghosts, battles and elephants.
Ideal for readers who:
- Need a very short classic with loneliness, yearning and one luminous encounter.
- Like Dostoyevsky when he is intimate, romantic and emotionally concentrated.
- Linger over imagined futures that vanish almost as soon as they appear.
- Choose a Penguin Little Black Classic that delivers heartbreak in miniature.
- About The Author
- Fyodor Mikhailovich Dostoyevsky was born in Moscow in 1821. His debut, the epistolary novella Poor Folk (1846), made his name. In 1849 he was arrested for involvement with the politically subversive 'Petrashevsky circle' and until 1854 he lived in a convict prison in Omsk, Siberia. From this experience came The House of the Dead (1860-2). In 1860 he began the journal Vremya (Time). Already married, he fell in love with one of his contributors, Appollinaria Suslova, eighteen years his junior, and developed a ruinous passion for roulette. After the death of his first wife, Maria, in 1864, Dostoyevsky completed Notes from Underground and began work towards Crime and Punishment (1866). The major novels of his late period are The Idiot (1868), Demons (1871-2) and The Brothers Karamazov (1879-80). He died in 1881.
- Product Details
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- ISBN
- 9780241252086
- Format
- Paperback
- Publisher
- Penguin Classics, (03 March 2016)
- Number of Pages
- 112
- Weight
- 96 grams
- Language
- English
- Dimensions
- 160 x 109 x 13 mm
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