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An Early Work by Dostoevsky

White Nights by Fyodor Dostoevsky

December 9, 2024 by Tracy Leave a Comment

If you’re interested in reading classic literature, this is a good one to start with. Clocking in at under 70 pages (as least according to my Kindle), this novella is told as the diary of an unnamed narrator recounting a few nights with a young woman in Petersburg. Our narrator meets Nastenka on a street one night after rescuing her from a man who was accosting her. He had previously observed her on the bank of a river and noticed her crying, but she ran […]

Filed Under: Fiction Tagged With: classic literature, Fyodor Dostoevsky, novella, Romanticism, Russian Literature

Tracy's CBR16 Review No:67 · Genres: Fiction · Tags: classic literature, Fyodor Dostoevsky, novella, Romanticism, Russian Literature ·
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Just Because a Famous Guy Wrote It. . .

Peter the Great’s African: Experiments in Prose by Alexander Pushkin

September 2, 2023 by elderberrywine Leave a Comment

cbr15 bingo Europe When I saw Pushkin’s name on this, it was very familiar of course, but I couldn’t remember reading anything by him.  Come to find out, he may be the Father of Russian Literature, but he’s a poet, and I mostly do novels.  But the familiar feeling I was getting was because he was also the go-to source for the Russian romantic composers, a genre I have always loved.  Ruslan and Lyudmila?  Overture by Glinka.  Eugene Onegin?  An opera by Tchaikovsky, best known […]

Filed Under: Fiction, History, Romance, Short Stories Tagged With: alexander pushkin, cbr15 bingo Europe, Don't leave us hanging man, family business, Music adjacent, Prose is hard to write, Russian Literature

elderberrywine's CBR15 Review No:27 · Genres: Fiction, History, Romance, Short Stories · Tags: alexander pushkin, cbr15 bingo Europe, Don't leave us hanging man, family business, Music adjacent, Prose is hard to write, Russian Literature ·
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