Fyodor Dostoevsky’s short story White Nights (1848) is a luminous blend of romance and psychological introspection, set against the dreamy backdrop of St. Petersburg’s summer evenings. While often overshadowed by Dostoevsky’s longer works like Crime and Punishment and The Brothers Karamazov, White Nights shines in its own tender, wistful manner. It showcases some of the author’s earliest explorations into alienation, yearning, and the fragility of the human spirit.
