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  <title><![CDATA[White Nights]]></title>
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  <original-publication-year type="integer">1848</original-publication-year>
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        <author id="3356">
      <name><![CDATA[Fyodor Dostoevsky]]></name>
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    <review id="2887710">
    <user id="180908">
    <name><![CDATA[Tatiana]]></name>
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      <rating>5</rating>
  <votes>3</votes>
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  <recommended_for><![CDATA[all of humanity]]></recommended_for>
  <recommended_by><![CDATA[my mother]]></recommended_by>
  <read_at>Tue Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 1980</read_at>
  <date_added>Mon Jul 09 21:20:29 -0700 2007</date_added>
  <date_updated>Sat Oct 18 10:20:58 -0700 2008</date_updated>
  <read_count>a dozen</read_count>
    <body><![CDATA[This story, really a novella, is the one I use to introduce people to Dostoyevsky.  If you like White Nights you will like Fyodor Mikailovich, I think, and if you don't you won't.  In it we're introduced to a charming intelligent young man who lives on the edges of St. Petersburg life, a shy dreamer...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/2887710">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="13004670">
    <user id="777950">
    <name><![CDATA[Kate]]></name>
    <location><![CDATA[Denver, CO]]></location>        
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      <rating>4</rating>
  <votes>2</votes>
  <sell_flag>false</sell_flag>
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  <recommended_for><![CDATA[]]></recommended_for>
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  <read_at>Fri Sep 01 00:00:00 -0700 2006</read_at>
  <date_added>Sun Jan 20 18:21:16 -0800 2008</date_added>
  <date_updated>Sun Jan 20 18:22:24 -0800 2008</date_updated>
  <read_count></read_count>
    <body><![CDATA[my very first dostoevsky. aw.]]></body>
    <url><![CDATA[http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/13004670?utm_medium=api]]></url>
</review>
    <review id="8284480">
    <user id="580687">
    <name><![CDATA[B-MO]]></name>
    <location><![CDATA[Flint, MI]]></location>        
    <url><![CDATA[http://www.goodreads.com/user/show/580687-b-mo?utm_medium=api]]></url>
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      <rating>5</rating>
  <votes>1</votes>
  <sell_flag>false</sell_flag>
  <spoiler_flag>false</spoiler_flag>
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  <recommended_for><![CDATA[]]></recommended_for>
  <recommended_by><![CDATA[]]></recommended_by>
  <read_at>Mon Oct 01 00:00:00 -0700 2007</read_at>
  <date_added>Fri Oct 26 12:15:42 -0700 2007</date_added>
  <date_updated>Fri Oct 26 12:19:53 -0700 2007</date_updated>
  <read_count></read_count>
    <body><![CDATA[One of Dostoyevsky's pre-prison works.  A story of a lonely man confessing his lonliness to a young lady met on the street; Nastenka.  The girl confesses her lonliness due to the fact that she has been pinned to her grandmother and was waiting for her lover to return.  Over the next few nights they ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/8284480">more...</a>]]></body>
    <url><![CDATA[http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/8284480?utm_medium=api]]></url>
</review>
    <review id="49783865">
    <user id="2143374">
    <name><![CDATA[Tyler]]></name>
    <location><![CDATA[The United States]]></location>        
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      <rating>4</rating>
  <votes>0</votes>
  <sell_flag>false</sell_flag>
  <spoiler_flag>false</spoiler_flag>
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  <recommended_for><![CDATA[]]></recommended_for>
  <recommended_by><![CDATA[]]></recommended_by>
  <read_at>Fri Oct 01 00:00:00 -0700 2004</read_at>
  <date_added>Thu Mar 19 11:53:43 -0700 2009</date_added>
  <date_updated>Thu Mar 19 12:05:23 -0700 2009</date_updated>
  <read_count></read_count>
    <body><![CDATA[I was sort of forced to read it by my roommate at the time, I think he threatened to put a cigarette out on my face if I didn't. He was on a alcohol fueled marathon attempt to adapt it in to a screenplay for a short film. Fearing it would drone on like Crime and punishment, I did what anyone facing ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/49783865">more...</a>]]></body>
    <url><![CDATA[http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/49783865?utm_medium=api]]></url>
</review>
    <review id="3034234">
    <user id="183865">
    <name><![CDATA[Lorenzo]]></name>
    <location><![CDATA[Bologna, Italy]]></location>        
    <url><![CDATA[http://www.goodreads.com/user/show/183865-lorenzo?utm_medium=api]]></url>
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      <rating>3</rating>
  <votes>1</votes>
  <sell_flag>false</sell_flag>
  <spoiler_flag>false</spoiler_flag>
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  <recommended_for><![CDATA[]]></recommended_for>
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  <read_at></read_at>
  <date_added>Fri Jul 13 11:31:05 -0700 2007</date_added>
  <date_updated>Sun Oct 07 06:19:21 -0700 2007</date_updated>
  <read_count></read_count>
    <body><![CDATA[One of the books which explains better my love failures. <br/>Romanticism is anachronistic.]]></body>
    <url><![CDATA[http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/3034234?utm_medium=api]]></url>
</review>
    <review id="66264756">
    <user id="202331">
    <name><![CDATA[Anna]]></name>
    <location><![CDATA[Kraków, Poland]]></location>        
    <url><![CDATA[http://www.goodreads.com/user/show/202331-anna?utm_medium=api]]></url>
  </user>
      <rating>4</rating>
  <votes>0</votes>
  <sell_flag>false</sell_flag>
  <spoiler_flag>false</spoiler_flag>
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  <recommended_for><![CDATA[]]></recommended_for>
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  <read_at></read_at>
  <date_added>Wed Aug 05 02:16:43 -0700 2009</date_added>
  <date_updated>Wed Aug 05 02:20:48 -0700 2009</date_updated>
  <read_count></read_count>
    <body><![CDATA[I started reading <a href="http://www.goodreads.com/author/show/3356.Fyodor_Dostoevsky" title="Fyodor Dostoevsky">Fyodor Dostoevsky</a>'s in end of high school through years of studying at the university til now. I think Dostoevsky is great writers - not only in epic novels like <em>Crime and punishment</em>, <em>Devils</em> or <em>The Brothers Karamazov</em>, but also in shorter forms like <em>White nights</em> or <em>The Gambler</em>.<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/66264756">more...</a>]]></body>
    <url><![CDATA[http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/66264756?utm_medium=api]]></url>
</review>
    <review id="10871259">
    <user id="400778">
    <name><![CDATA[Núria]]></name>
    <location><![CDATA[Spain]]></location>        
    <url><![CDATA[http://www.goodreads.com/user/show/400778-n-ria?utm_medium=api]]></url>
  </user>
      <rating>3</rating>
  <votes>0</votes>
  <sell_flag>false</sell_flag>
  <spoiler_flag>false</spoiler_flag>
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  <recommended_for><![CDATA[]]></recommended_for>
  <recommended_by><![CDATA[]]></recommended_by>
  <read_at></read_at>
  <date_added>Sat Dec 22 10:06:15 -0800 2007</date_added>
  <date_updated>Sat Dec 22 10:11:25 -0800 2007</date_updated>
  <read_count></read_count>
    <body><![CDATA[Creo que mi error fue haber visto antes la adaptación de Luchino Visconti que leerme el libro. El relato de Dostoievski es puro Dostoievski, es como tantas otras veces la historia de un hombre enamorado de su habitación, es un relato sobre temas como el orgullo, la desesperación, la humillación,...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/10871259">more...</a>]]></body>
    <url><![CDATA[http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/10871259?utm_medium=api]]></url>
</review>
    <review id="72174503">
    <user id="2095520">
    <name><![CDATA[Peggy]]></name>
    <location><![CDATA[Eliot, ME]]></location>        
    <url><![CDATA[http://www.goodreads.com/user/show/2095520-peggy?utm_medium=api]]></url>
  </user>
      <rating>3</rating>
  <votes>0</votes>
  <sell_flag>false</sell_flag>
  <spoiler_flag>false</spoiler_flag>
  <shelves>
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  <recommended_for><![CDATA[]]></recommended_for>
  <recommended_by><![CDATA[]]></recommended_by>
  <read_at>Tue Sep 01 00:00:00 -0700 2009</read_at>
  <date_added>Tue Sep 22 17:54:21 -0700 2009</date_added>
  <date_updated>Tue Sep 22 17:57:33 -0700 2009</date_updated>
  <read_count></read_count>
    <body><![CDATA[The first few sentences of the story captivated me as did the ending.  I thought the narrator was a real loser. I expected a better read, but I guess time and probably a poor translation have dimmed the glory of this story.  Glad I read it though.]]></body>
    <url><![CDATA[http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/72174503?utm_medium=api]]></url>
</review>
    <review id="51985726">
    <user id="2200180">
    <name><![CDATA[Banu]]></name>
    <location><![CDATA[Ankara, 68, Turkey]]></location>        
    <url><![CDATA[http://www.goodreads.com/user/show/2200180-banu-kevser?utm_medium=api]]></url>
  </user>
      <rating>0</rating>
  <votes>0</votes>
  <sell_flag>false</sell_flag>
  <spoiler_flag>false</spoiler_flag>
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  <recommended_for><![CDATA[]]></recommended_for>
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  <read_at></read_at>
  <date_added>Wed Apr 08 15:45:36 -0700 2009</date_added>
  <date_updated>Wed Apr 08 15:46:02 -0700 2009</date_updated>
  <read_count></read_count>
    <body><![CDATA[<br/><br/>“gözlerimi açtığım zaman, sanki çok eskilerden işitip ezberlediğim, sonra da unuttuğum tatlı bir ezgi çalınıyordu kulağıma. yaşadığım sürece ruhumdan kopmak isteyen ve şimdi fırsat bulan bir ezgi…”]]></body>
    <url><![CDATA[http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/51985726?utm_medium=api]]></url>
</review>
    <review id="41562045">
    <user id="997931">
    <name><![CDATA[Julies]]></name>
    <location><![CDATA[The United States]]></location>        
    <url><![CDATA[http://www.goodreads.com/user/show/997931-julies?utm_medium=api]]></url>
  </user>
      <rating>4</rating>
  <votes>0</votes>
  <sell_flag>false</sell_flag>
  <spoiler_flag>false</spoiler_flag>
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      </shelves>
  <recommended_for><![CDATA[]]></recommended_for>
  <recommended_by><![CDATA[]]></recommended_by>
  <read_at>Mon Sep 01 00:00:00 -0700 2008</read_at>
  <date_added>Thu Jan 01 21:06:05 -0800 2009</date_added>
  <date_updated>Thu Jan 01 21:06:50 -0800 2009</date_updated>
  <read_count></read_count>
    <body><![CDATA[Beautiful, beautiful writing.  Some of Dostoevsky's best as far as straight style is concerned.  The story and characters, however, are not as great as some of his better-known works.]]></body>
    <url><![CDATA[http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/41562045?utm_medium=api]]></url>
</review>
    <review id="53696268">
    <user id="1953408">
    <name><![CDATA[Rose]]></name>
    <location><![CDATA[Media, PA]]></location>        
    <url><![CDATA[http://www.goodreads.com/user/show/1953408-rose?utm_medium=api]]></url>
  </user>
      <rating>1</rating>
  <votes>0</votes>
  <sell_flag>false</sell_flag>
  <spoiler_flag>false</spoiler_flag>
  <shelves>
      </shelves>
  <recommended_for><![CDATA[]]></recommended_for>
  <recommended_by><![CDATA[]]></recommended_by>
  <read_at>Sun Jun 14 00:00:00 -0700 2009</read_at>
  <date_added>Thu Apr 23 05:34:16 -0700 2009</date_added>
  <date_updated>Sat Aug 01 12:22:18 -0700 2009</date_updated>
  <read_count></read_count>
    <body><![CDATA[I picked up a Bollywood movie at the discount store (Saawariya), said to be based on this short story, and decided to read the story before watching the DVD. It turns out there have been a number of movies based on this short story, and I can't imaging why anyone would bother.  I found it tedious an...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/53696268">more...</a>]]></body>
    <url><![CDATA[http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/53696268?utm_medium=api]]></url>
</review>
    <review id="51207613">
    <user id="2182809">
    <name><![CDATA[Petervel]]></name>
    <location><![CDATA[West Salem, WI]]></location>        
    <url><![CDATA[http://www.goodreads.com/user/show/2182809-petervel?utm_medium=api]]></url>
  </user>
      <rating>4</rating>
  <votes>0</votes>
  <sell_flag>false</sell_flag>
  <spoiler_flag>false</spoiler_flag>
  <shelves>
      </shelves>
  <recommended_for><![CDATA[]]></recommended_for>
  <recommended_by><![CDATA[]]></recommended_by>
  <read_at>Fri Feb 10 00:00:00 -0800 2006</read_at>
  <date_added>Wed Apr 01 18:35:50 -0700 2009</date_added>
  <date_updated>Wed Apr 01 18:37:31 -0700 2009</date_updated>
  <read_count></read_count>
    <body><![CDATA[My first full length read in the original Russian.  Not as good as Crime and Punishment, Brothers Karamatzov or Бедные людые but still worth reading.]]></body>
    <url><![CDATA[http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/51207613?utm_medium=api]]></url>
</review>
    <review id="76354810">
    <user id="2898112">
    <name><![CDATA[Adam]]></name>
    <location><![CDATA[Rzepin, 86, Poland]]></location>        
    <url><![CDATA[http://www.goodreads.com/user/show/2898112-adam-what-ovsky?utm_medium=api]]></url>
  </user>
      <rating>4</rating>
  <votes>0</votes>
  <sell_flag>false</sell_flag>
  <spoiler_flag>false</spoiler_flag>
  <shelves>
      </shelves>
  <recommended_for><![CDATA[]]></recommended_for>
  <recommended_by><![CDATA[]]></recommended_by>
  <read_at></read_at>
  <date_added>Sun Nov 01 02:43:09 -0800 2009</date_added>
  <date_updated>Sun Nov 01 02:44:35 -0800 2009</date_updated>
  <read_count></read_count>
    <body><![CDATA[Krótka nowela, zawierająca dwa opowiadania - mężczyzny pierwszy raz w życiu zakochanego i mężczyzny opłakującego śmierć swej żony. Geniusz.]]></body>
    <url><![CDATA[http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/76354810?utm_medium=api]]></url>
</review>
    <review id="39929597">
    <user id="73894">
    <name><![CDATA[kunkku]]></name>
    <location><![CDATA[Finland]]></location>        
    <url><![CDATA[http://www.goodreads.com/user/show/73894-kunkku?utm_medium=api]]></url>
  </user>
      <rating>5</rating>
  <votes>0</votes>
  <sell_flag>false</sell_flag>
  <spoiler_flag>false</spoiler_flag>
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      </shelves>
  <recommended_for><![CDATA[]]></recommended_for>
  <recommended_by><![CDATA[]]></recommended_by>
  <read_at>Fri Nov 01 00:00:00 -0800 1963</read_at>
  <date_added>Fri Dec 12 00:45:19 -0800 2008</date_added>
  <date_updated>Fri Dec 12 00:46:46 -0800 2008</date_updated>
  <read_count></read_count>
    <body><![CDATA[dimly recalled as one of his more light/hearted reads...as usual in the Constace Garnet translations i appreciated so much...]]></body>
    <url><![CDATA[http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/39929597?utm_medium=api]]></url>
</review>
    <review id="72877491">
    <user id="2692545">
    <name><![CDATA[Carolina]]></name>
    <location><![CDATA[Arlington, VA]]></location>        
    <url><![CDATA[http://www.goodreads.com/user/show/2692545-carolina?utm_medium=api]]></url>
  </user>
      <rating>5</rating>
  <votes>0</votes>
  <sell_flag>false</sell_flag>
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  <recommended_for><![CDATA[]]></recommended_for>
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  <read_at></read_at>
  <date_added>Tue Sep 29 07:18:54 -0700 2009</date_added>
  <date_updated>Tue Sep 29 07:19:28 -0700 2009</date_updated>
  <read_count></read_count>
    <body><![CDATA[I loved this book. I read it as a teenager and I still remember that bridge (or my thought of that bridge)]]></body>
    <url><![CDATA[http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/72877491?utm_medium=api]]></url>
</review>
    <review id="51757960">
    <user id="2193305">
    <name><![CDATA[Caio]]></name>
    <location><![CDATA[São Paulo, 27, Brazil]]></location>        
    <url><![CDATA[http://www.goodreads.com/user/show/2193305-caio-fereira?utm_medium=api]]></url>
  </user>
      <rating>3</rating>
  <votes>0</votes>
  <sell_flag>false</sell_flag>
  <spoiler_flag>false</spoiler_flag>
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  <recommended_for><![CDATA[]]></recommended_for>
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  <read_at></read_at>
  <date_added>Mon Apr 06 19:05:26 -0700 2009</date_added>
  <date_updated>Mon Apr 06 19:13:16 -0700 2009</date_updated>
  <read_count></read_count>
    <body><![CDATA[A beautiful romantic story, written after a loving disappointment happened whith the writer.]]></body>
    <url><![CDATA[http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/51757960?utm_medium=api]]></url>
</review>
    <review id="43956214">
    <user id="1942781">
    <name><![CDATA[Cody]]></name>
    <location><![CDATA[Burbank, CA]]></location>        
    <url><![CDATA[http://www.goodreads.com/user/show/1942781-cody?utm_medium=api]]></url>
  </user>
      <rating>0</rating>
  <votes>0</votes>
  <sell_flag>false</sell_flag>
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  <recommended_for><![CDATA[]]></recommended_for>
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  <read_at></read_at>
  <date_added>Thu Jan 22 12:24:27 -0800 2009</date_added>
  <date_updated>Thu Jan 22 12:24:37 -0800 2009</date_updated>
  <read_count></read_count>
    <body><![CDATA[eh'  He's done better.]]></body>
    <url><![CDATA[http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/43956214?utm_medium=api]]></url>
</review>
    <review id="58685572">
    <user id="591640">
    <name><![CDATA[César]]></name>
    <location><![CDATA[São Paulo, Brazil]]></location>        
    <url><![CDATA[http://www.goodreads.com/user/show/591640-c-sar-marins?utm_medium=api]]></url>
  </user>
      <rating>5</rating>
  <votes>0</votes>
  <sell_flag>false</sell_flag>
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  <recommended_for><![CDATA[]]></recommended_for>
  <recommended_by><![CDATA[]]></recommended_by>
  <read_at>Wed May 20 00:00:00 -0700 2009</read_at>
  <date_added>Sat Jun 06 16:40:58 -0700 2009</date_added>
  <date_updated>Sat Jun 06 16:41:41 -0700 2009</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[Great book!]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[The best short story by Dostoevsky in my humble (read: correct) opinion.  My opinion of the story may be based on the place in life I was at when I read it, or my general affinity for the solitary and the idea of the flaneur as a familiar archetype, but I'll leave those judgments to those reading to...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/34492244">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[An ex-beau once compared me to the female character, Nastenka, and himself to the protagonist. Except that I was less cruel and he was less pathetic. Uhm. Still not sure if this was a compliment, but still quite hig-brow to have been compared to a Dostoevsky character.]]></body>
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