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White Nights is a short story by Fyodor Dostoevsky that was published in 1848. Set in St. Petersburg, it is the story of a young man fighting his inner restlessness. A light and tender narrative, it delves into the torment and guilt of unrequited love. Both protagonists suffer from a deep sense of alienation that initially brings them together.
Like. “and what shall I have to dream of when I have been so happy in reality beside you!”. ― Fyodor Dostoyevsky, White Nights. tags: dream, happiness, love. 87 likes. Like. “. . . finally, I couldn't imagine how I could live without books, and I stopped dreaming about marrying that Chinese prince. . . .”.
Jan 1, 2008 · The electrifying follow up to the award-winning Raven Black. Raven Black received crime fiction’s highest monetary honor, the Duncan Lawrie Dagger Award. Now Detective Jimmy Perez is back in an electrifying sequel. It’s midsummer in the Shetland Islands, the time of the white nights, when birds sing at midnight and the sun never sets.
Jan 26, 2022 · 3.76. 791 ratings153 reviews. White Nights, the debut short story collection from poet Urszula Honek, is a series of thirteen interconnected stories concerning the various tragedies and misfortunes that befall a group of people who all grew up and live (d) in the same village in the Beskid Niski region, in southern Poland.
Jan 1, 2010 · 1,705ratings237reviews. Kindle $11.99. A LUSHLY ROMANTIC NOVEL FROM THE AUTHOR OF CALL ME BY YOUR NAMEEight White Nights is an unforgettable journey through that enchanted terrain where passion and fear and the sheer craving to ask for love and to show love can forever alter who we are. A man in his late twenties goes to a large Christmas party ...
1,275,872 ratings38,980 reviews. Born in the town of Sighet, Transylvania, Elie Wiesel was a teenager when he and his family were taken from their home in 1944 to Auschwitz concentration camp, and then to Buchenwald. Night is the terrifying record of Elie Wiesel's memories of the death of his family, the death of his own innocence, and his ...
Oct 20, 2011 · White Nights felt like a decent preamble to the author's showcase of brutal philosophy regarding human misery. On the other hand, this short story might have been Dostoevsky's most tamed expression of pain and struggle from his whole catalogue, but not in any way less tragic and lamentable, considering that it still touches upon love and affection.
Jan 1, 1979 · Told with cool, incisive prose, White Nights is Begin’s own harrowing account of his 1940-1941 detention by the Soviet Union’s NKVD. Decisively, it is a memoir, the first of Begin's two (the other is about Etzel's revolt against the British Mandate), though interspersed throughout is also some political analysis of the Soviet Union's tyrannical regime and the culture of abject fear it ...
Sep 3, 2021 · November 28, 2021. 3.5 stars! This is the first book in the White Nights duet and features Alex and Kate. Alex Volkov is a Russian oligarch that lives in the grey, is extremely wealthy and has dangerous enemies. One evening he finds himself in the ER when his bodyguard takes a bullet for him and he meets Kate.
Nov 6, 2023 · White Horse Black Nights by Evie Marceau is an epic tale that takes you on an exciting journey to a fascinating world of fantasy and forbidden romance. The well-crafted characters and storyline will keep you engaged from the first pages.
