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Dostoevsky in the 1850s, a few years after "White Nights." "White Nights" (Russian: Белые ночи, romanized: Belye nochi; original spelling Бѣлыя ночи, Beliya nochi) is a short story by Fyodor Dostoevsky, originally published in 1848, early in the writer's career. [1] Like many of Dostoevsky's stories, "White Nights" is told in ...
[5] Beryl Bainbridge, Richard Adams, Ronald Harwood, and John Bayley also spoke positively of the work, while philosopher Roger Scruton described it as a "brilliant summary of story-telling". [ 6 ] Others have dismissed the book on grounds that Booker is too rigid in fitting works of art to the plot types above.
The Stolen White Elephant - Mark Twain 89. Tyger, Tyger - William Blake 90. Green Tea - Sheridan Le Fanu 91. The Yellow Book - Various 92. Kidnapped - Olaudah Equiano 93. A Modern Detective - Edgar Allan Poe 94. The Suffragettes - Various 95. How To Be a Medieval Woman - Margery Kempe 96. Typhoon - Joseph Conrad 97. The Nun of Murano - Giacomo ...
While this plot summary may include a few details, especially a few descriptions of conversation, that are probably unnecessary, e.g. that Matryona finished cleaning the cobwebs, for the most part this is a well-written summary. In general, I prefer plot summaries with more information, rather than less.
Critics such as Donald Fanger [16] and Roman Katsman, writer of The Time of Cruel Miracles: Mythopoesis in Dostoevsky and Agnon, call these elements "mythopoeic". [17] Suicides are found in several of Dostoyevsky's books. The 1860s–1880s marked a near-epidemic period of suicides in Russia, and many contemporary Russian authors wrote about ...
Larissa Volokhonsky (Russian: Лариса Волохонская) was born into a Jewish family in Leningrad, now St. Petersburg, on 1 October 1945.After graduating from Leningrad State University with a degree in mathematical linguistics, she worked in the Institute of Marine Biology (Vladivostok) and travelled extensively in Sakhalin Island and Kamchatka (1968-1973).
From ancient history to the modern day, the clitoris has been discredited, dismissed and deleted -- and women's pleasure has often been left out of the conversation entirely. Now, an underground art movement led by artist Sophia Wallace is emerging across the globe to challenge the lies, question the myths and rewrite the rules around sex and the female body.
Constance Clara Garnett (née Black; 19 December 1861 – 17 December 1946) was an English translator of nineteenth-century Russian literature.She was the first English translator to render numerous volumes of Anton Chekhov's work into English and the first to translate almost all of Fyodor Dostoevsky's fiction into English.