Dostoevsky Audiobook for Sleep (3.5 Hours) | White Nights, The Gambler, Poor Folk & The Idiot

Four of Fyodor Dostoevsky's novels, told back to back with no commentary, for falling asleep or listening for a long while. Between the stories there is only a short title card. White Nights (1848) · The Gambler (1866) · Poor Folk (1846) · The Idiot (1869) These are the story parts of our four Dostoevsky episodes, newly written from the original Russian texts. They are retellings in the story's own order, with Dostoevsky's own words translated along the way, not word-for-word readings. Each novel's background and commentary are in the individual episodes on this channel. 0:00 White Nights — First Night 7:31 Second Night 15:01 Nastenka's Story 23:47 Third Night 28:46 Fourth Night 38:11 Morning 41:48 The Gambler — Roulettenburg: A Household Waiting for a Telegram 46:42 The Promenade: Five Minutes, and a Bow to a Baron 52:28 The Chestnut Avenue: What Mr. Astley Knew 55:43 The Hotel Steps: Instead of a Telegram 1:00:09 The Gaming Hall: Zero 1:05:54 The Same Afternoon: "My Money, Not Yours" 1:09:03 Half Past Three: The Money Changers 1:16:04 The Next Day: A Sled on a Snowy Hill 1:21:09 Ten O'Clock at Night: My Whole Life on the Table 1:28:49 Before Dawn: Fifty Thousand Francs 1:34:47 Paris: Three Weeks and a Wedding 1:38:34 Twenty Months Later: A Bench in Homburg 1:47:07 Poor Folk — April 8: A Curtain on the Balsam Pot 1:50:49 June 1: Varenka's Notebook, a Yellow Fence 1:54:52 Varenka's Notebook: Eleven Volumes of Pushkin 2:01:13 Varenka's Notebook: A Rainy Morning in October 2:04:53 June: "The Rat" Who Copies 2:08:49 July 1 and July 8: Two Books 2:12:28 Late July: Four Days Missing 2:15:59 August: A Boot Sole on the Bridge 2:21:48 September 9: A Button on the Floor 2:27:48 Mid-September: A Good Name 2:32:17 Late September: Flounces 2:37:03 The Idiot — Late November, a Train in the Fog 2:42:16 The Same Morning, the General's House 2:47:56 That Afternoon, a Rented Flat 2:51:28 Her Birthday, Late at Night 2:59:03 Six Months Later, a Dark Green House 3:05:13 The Same Evening, a Staircase in the Storm 3:08:56 Summer in Pavlovsk 3:12:47 An Evening Party and a Chinese Vase 3:16:15 Two Women in One Room 3:20:40 The Wedding Day, Eight in the Evening 3:23:18 Late at Night, Behind a Green Curtain 3:28:54 Afterward 📚 Sources · Fyodor Dostoevsky, original Russian texts; Collected Works (15 vols.) with commentary · English translations by Constance Garnett and Eva Martin, used only for comparison 🖼 Period images — Wikimedia Commons · Hans Holbein- The Body of the Dead Christ in the Tomb — Hans Holbein the Younger (PD) https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Hans_Holbein-_The_Body_of_the_Dead_Christ_in_the_Tomb.JPG · Pavlovsk Muzyk vokzal (Meier) — Johann Jakob Meyer (PD) https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Pavlovsk_Muzyk_vokzal_%28Meier%29.jpg Illustrations are AI-generated for this channel. Real people appear only in period photographs and portraits; their faces were never generated. 🎵 Music: original background music generated for this channel (Google Flow Music). #Dostoevsky #Audiobook #BedtimeStory