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Fyodor DostoevskyБелые ночи - White Nights

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LibriVox recording of Белые ночи - (White Nights) by Fyodor Dostoevsky.

Read in Russian by Yakovlev Valery

Belye Nochi ("White Nights") by Fyodor Dostoevsky. In this small 100kb story (though author states this is a sentimental novel) author describes in his traditional and particular way the internal world of one young lonely person.
The hero's 26 years old man, who is oriented into his internal world, who's rather shy, and thus is in real demand of a soulful conversations and love. The action take place in the city of a real and deep sentiments and romance -- Saint Petersburg, the most romantic and European city in Russia. Not only the location is important, but also a time of a day: all actions in the story take place in evening and night time -- the famous time of white nights.
Once, hero is going out to have a little daily promenade alone and he occasionally meets an attractive and lovely woman on evening streets of Saint Petersburg. Can he fell in love with her? Can they estimate the value of this relationship? Can they lead a happy life in this city of lonely hearts? You will know the answers on all these questions if you read or listen to a story.
(Summary written by Yakovlev Valery)

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Artist/Composer: Fyodor Dostoevsky
Source: Librivox recording of a public-domain text
Keywords: librivox; literature; audiobook; short story; russian

Creative Commons license: Public Domain

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