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![]() | A Gentle Creature and Other Stories (1995) A collection of stories by Fyodor Dostoevsky |
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 'underground' of many of Dostoevsky's later intellectual heroes. A Gentle Creature and The Dream of a Ridiculous Man show how such withdrawal from reality can end in spiritual desolation and moral indifference and how, in Dostoevsky's view, the tragedy of the alienated individual can be resolved only by the rediscovery of a sense of compassion and responsibility towards fellow human beings.
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Hardback Editions
January 1950 : Hardback
| Title: A Gentle Creature And Other Stories. Author(s): Fyodor Dostoevsky Publisher: Lehmann Availability: Amazon UK More details... |
Paperback Editions
April 2009 : Paperback
| Title: A Gentle Creature and Other Stories: White Nights; A Gentle Creature; The Dream of a Ridiculous Man (Oxford World's Classics) Author(s): Fyodor Dostoevsky ISBN: 0-19-955508-7 / 978-0-19-955508-6 (UK edition) Publisher: Oxford Paperbacks Availability: Amazon Amazon UK Amazon CA More details... |
February 1999 : Paperback
| Title: White Nights, A Gentle Creature, Dream of a Ridiculous Man Author(s): Fyodor Dostoevsky ISBN: 0-19-283828-8 / 978-0-19-283828-5 (UK edition) Publisher: Oxford Paperbacks Availability: Amazon Amazon UK Amazon CA More details... |
1950 : Paperback
| Title: A Gentle Creature and Other Stories Author(s): Fyodor Dostoevsky Publisher: Lehmann Availability: Amazon Amazon CA More details... |
Other Editions
June 1995 : Kindle edition
| Title: A Gentle Creature and Other Stories: White Nights; A Gentle Creature; and The Dream of a Ridiculous Man (The World's Classics) Author(s): Fyodor Dostoevsky Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA Availability: Amazon More details... |
January 1950 : Unknown
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