"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.