White Nights

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 m...