White Nights (classic translation, short story)

Fyodor Mikhailovich Dostoyevsky led a life full of ups and downs. He was arrested for his involvement in the Petrashevsky Circle and condemned to death. But at the last moment, a note from Tsar Nicholas I was delivered to the scene of the firing squad, commuting the sentence to ten years' hard labor in Siberia. After back to St Petersburg, he worked with his elder brother to publish The Times Paper and Times Magazine, which are suspended due to insufficient funds. After his brother died, Dostoyevsky shouldered his major debt and were pressed for payments of debt. He had to move abroad. His personal life was also full of misery and pain. His parents died early and he suffered from epilepsy. His first wife and his love with Seuss did not make him happy until he married his second wife. Man does not live by bread alone-Dostoevsky's letters selection provided materials in these aspects. In addition, this book inflected the obsession of some writers to roulette. And his letters to prediction (dream) shows part of his personality and as well is connected with the mysticism revealed in his portraying characters.