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A Gentle Creature

Author
Fyodor Dostoyevsky
Read by
Raphael Croft
Language
English
Length
1 hour 24 minutes
ISBN
9781802564365
Published
27 March 2025
Imprint
Adelphi Press
  • Dostoyevsky
  • Dostoyevskiy
  • Dostoevsky
  • materialism
  • spirituality
  • suicide
  • life
  • death
  • addiction
  • love

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Description

A pawnshop owner watches a desperate young woman pawn her last treasures to advertise as a governess, then draws her into a marriage of uneven power where silence, pride, and cruelty gather until tragedy cannot be unspoken. Psychological intensity in a few rooms. Spoken as when a gentle creature still asks what tenderness can mean when one heart owns the other.

Author

Fyodor Dostoyevsky was a Russian writer and philosopher who is considered to be one of the greatest novelists of all time. His major works include Crime and Punishment, The Brothers Karamazov, and War and Peace. Dostoyevsky was known for his psychological insight, his criticism of social injustice, and his profound understanding of the human condition.

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