✍︎ About the Author · Fyodor Dostoevsky
Fyodor Dostoevsky was a Russian novelist, short-story writer and essayist born in 1821. His fiction is celebrated for its psychological depth and its exploration of morality, faith, guilt, freedom and the contradictions of human behaviour. His major novels include Crime and Punishment, The Brothers Karamazov, The Idiot and Demons. Alongside these larger works, shorter pieces such as White Nights reveal his gift for emotional intensity and intimate characterisation. Dostoevsky died in 1881 and remains one of the most influential writers in world literature.
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White Nights
by Fyodor Dostoevsky
White Nights is a tender and deeply emotional story about loneliness, hope and the fragile possibility of connection. Set over a handful of summer nights in Saint Petersburg, it follows an unnamed dreamer whose solitary life changes when he meets a young woman named Nastenka. As the two begin sharing their hopes, disappointments and private dreams, the narrator becomes increasingly attached to the possibility of love. Yet Nastenka is waiting for someone else, and their brief friendship develops under the shadow of uncertainty. Fyodor Dostoevsky captures the intensity of longing with remarkable simplicity and compassion. Short, lyrical and bittersweet, White Nights is one of his most accessible works and remains beloved for its portrayal of dreamers, missed chances and the emotional worlds people carry within themselves.
- Genre
- Literary Fiction / Romance / Psychological Fiction
- Series
- Nu Voice Paperback Classics
- Binding
- Paperback
- Pages
- 90
- ISBN
- 978-81-688351-5-3
- Combo eligible
- Yes
✍︎ About the Author · Fyodor Dostoevsky
Fyodor Dostoevsky was a Russian novelist, short-story writer and essayist born in 1821. His fiction is celebrated for its psychological depth and its exploration of morality, faith, guilt, freedom and the contradictions of human behaviour. His major novels include Crime and Punishment, The Brothers Karamazov, The Idiot and Demons. Alongside these larger works, shorter pieces such as White Nights reveal his gift for emotional intensity and intimate characterisation. Dostoevsky died in 1881 and remains one of the most influential writers in world literature.