In the luminous summer nights of St. Petersburg, a lonely dreamer encounters a troubled young woman. Fyodor Mikhailovich Dostoevsky's "White Nights" unfolds as an intimate tale of four evenings that hover between hope and melancholy. Through shared confidences and tender moments, the bond between Nastenka and the nameless narrator grows into something as fragile as it is profound. As she awaits her long-absent fiancé, their connection deepens into a love story that captures the ache of what cannot be.
This 1848 novella captures the poignant space between romantic fantasy and reality in Dostoevsky's distinctive prose, leaving readers with an unforgettable meditation on solitude and the fleeting nature of love.
