"White Nights" is a short story by Fyodor Dostoevsky, originally published in 1848, early in the writer's career.

"White Nights" is a short story by Fyodor Dostoevsky, originally published in 1848, early in the writer's career.

Like many of Dostoevsky's stories, "White Nights" is told in the first person by a nameless narrator. The narrator is a young man living in Saint Petersburg who suffers from loneliness. He gets to know and falls in love with a young woman, but the love remains unrequited as the woman misses her lover, with whom she is finally reunited. (wikipedia.org)