Description: Further DetailsTitle: A Gentle Creature and Other StoriesCondition: NewSubtitle: White Nights; A Gentle Creature; The Dream of a Ridiculous ManISBN-10: 0199555087EAN: 9780199555086ISBN: 9780199555086Publisher: Oxford University PressFormat: PaperbackRelease Date: 04/23/2009Description: 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. This new translation captures the power and lyricism of Dostoevsky's writing, while the introduction examines the stories in relation to one another and to his novels. ABOUT THE SERIES: For over 100 years Oxford World's Classics has made available the widest range of literature from around the globe. Each affordable volume reflects Oxford's commitment to scholarship, providing the most accurate text plus a wealth of other valuable features, including expert introductions by leading authorities, helpful notes to clarify the text, up-to-date bibliographies for further study, and much more.Language: EnglishCountry/Region of Manufacture: GBItem Height: 195mmItem Length: 129mmItem Width: 8mmAuthor: Fyodor DostoevskyTranslator: Alan MyersContributor: Alan Myers (Translated by), W. J. Leatherbarrow (Introduction by)Genre: Literary CriticismBook Series: Oxford World's ClassicsTopic: Classic Fiction, FictionItem Weight: 118gRelease Year: 2009 Missing Information?Please contact us if any details are missing and where possible we will add the information to our listing.
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Publication Name: A Gentle Creature and Other Stories
Title: A Gentle Creature and Other Stories
Subtitle: White Nights; A Gentle Creature; The Dream of a Ridiculous Man
ISBN-10: 0199555087
EAN: 9780199555086
ISBN: 9780199555086
Release Date: 04/23/2009
Release Year: 2009
Country/Region of Manufacture: GB
Translator: Alan Myers
Contributor: W. J. Leatherbarrow (Introduction by)
Series: Oxford World's Classics
Book Title: Gentle Creature and Other Stories : White Nights; a Gentle Creature; the Dream of a Ridiculous Man
Number of Pages: 160 Pages
Language: English
Publisher: Oxford University Press, Incorporated
Item Height: 0.3 in
Publication Year: 2009
Topic: Short Stories (Single Author), General, Literary
Genre: Literary Criticism, Fiction
Item Weight: 4.2 Oz
Item Length: 7.7 in
Author: Alan Myers, Fyodor Dostoevsky
Item Width: 5.1 in
Book Series: Oxford World's Classics Ser.
Format: Trade Paperback
