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White Nights

A Fyodor Dostoyevsky Short Story

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White Nights

By: Fyodor Dostoevsky
Narrated by: Deaver Brown
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"White Nights" is the third major Dostoyevsky short story everyone should read or listen to, along with "A Faint Heart" and "The Christmas Tree and Wedding". The story contains a series of Winesburg, Ohio-like moments: a woman and man meet accidentally on the First Night; proceed to meet again on the Second and Third, almost fall in love, and at the last minute the former lover of the woman returns to take her away. But the point is that the man had a moment, a glorious moment when, for the first time in his life, he had something special. Was that enough? That is the question the author leaves us with.

Public Domain (P)2011 Christina Brown Anthologies Anthologies & Short Stories Classics Coming of Age Fiction Genre Fiction Literature & Fiction Sea Adventures Short Stories United States World Literature Heartfelt
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Recognising the narration is from 2011, the voice actor makes the reading experience feel like a tired parent reading to their kids at night, desperately trying to get out of the room.
A single tone, no vocal variation between characters and barely a breath between words. Luckily, it’s only 60 pages or I would’ve DNF’d the audiobook.
Story is perfectly lovely.

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