Poor Folk
The short stories Dostoyevsky wrote during the period before his imprisonment explore similar themes to "Poor Folk" and "The Double". "White Nights" "features rich nature and music imagery, gentle irony, usually directed at the first-person narrator himself, and a warm pathos that is always ready to turn into self-parody". The first three parts of his unfinished novel "Netochka Nezvanova" chronicle the trials and tribulations of Netochka, stepdaughter of a second-class fiddler, while in "A Christmas Tree and a Wedding", Dostoyevsky switches to social satire.