
Botuesi: Penguin Classics
White nights, Fyodor Dostoyevsky
'My God! A whole minute of bliss! Is that really so little for the whole of a man's life?' A poignant tale of love and loneliness from Russia's foremost writer.
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After spending several years in a sanatorium recovering from an illness that caused him to lose his memory and ability to reason, Prince Myshkin arrives in St Petersburg and is at once confronted with the stark realities of life in the Russian capital – from greed, murder and nihilism to passion, vanity and love.
Titulli: The Idiot
Origjinali: The Idiot
Gjinia: Roman
Autori: Fyodor Dostoevsky
Shtëpia botuese: Alma Classics
Viti: 2020
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Pesha: 0.552 kg
ISBN: 978-1-84749-343-9
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