A Christmas Tree and a Wedding

In this short story by Fyodor Dostoevsky, originally published in 1848, a man passing a wedding reflects on a children's New Year’s Eve party from five years earlier, a gathering that revealed the social dynamics among the attendees. As an observer, he notes the interactions and connections amongst the adults while focusing on the children at play around the Christmas tree, highlighting the unacknowledged social hierarchies in their innocent interactions. This audiobook is based on the 1918 translation by Constance Garnett.