Mar 18, 2025
Anna and Geoff discuss WHITE NIGHTS by Fyodor Dostoevsky translated by Ronald Meyer.
A man meets a woman on the street in St Petersburg and falls in love in this short story. It has become a Tik Tok sensation in recent months and Penguin has commissioned a new audiobook to be read by Bridgerton’s Luke Thompson. Dostoevsky was in his romantic, millennial era when he wrote this (notably, before he spent four years in prison and escaped a death sentence).
Other books mentioned:
SUBTLY WORDED by Teffi translated by Anne Marie Jackson
THE GAMBLER AND OTHER STORIES by Fyodor Dostoevsky
CRIME AND PUNISHMENT by Fyodor Dostoevsky
LETTER FROM AN UNKOWN WOMAN by Stefan Zweig translated by Anthea Bell
Coming up:
THE HOUSE OF THE DEAD by Dostoevsky
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