Day and night

Author: Fyodor Dostoevsky / Rong Rude and others
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Publish Date: 2004-11-01
Features: White Nights is a collection of middle and long by the great Russian writer of the 19th century, Fyodor Dostoevsky, including the famous works Poor Folk, White Nights, and The Gambler. Poor Folk tells the story of the impoverished protagonist, Yevdoshkin, who shows warm and selfless concern and help to the orphaned girl Varvara, only to see her taken away by the cunning and treacherous merchant under the pressure of social environment, leaving Yevdoshkin devastated. White Nights depicts the innocent girl, Nastya, falling in love with her boarder, who promises to meet her on a bridge a year later, but the boarder never appears. The narrator comforts the heroine and accompanies her in waiting for four nights, finally the boarder appears and takes the girl away. The Gambler revolves around a group of gamblers participating in roulette, portraying the life journeys and spiritual states of two generations of Russian landlords and nobles in the 19th century.