White Nights and Other Stories

by Fyodor Dostoyevsky

Overview

"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. (wikipedia.org)

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781644395233
Publisher:	Indoeuropeanpublishing.com
Publication date:	04/16/2021
Pages:	256
Sales rank:	303,615
Product dimensions:	6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x 0.58(d)

About the Author

Fyodor Dostoyevsky (1821–81) created powerful depictions of the human condition that led to significant developments in 20th-century thought, including psychoanalysis and existentialism. His influence resonates in the works of latter-day authors such as Proust, Faulkner, Hemingway, and Kafka.

Table of Contents

An Honest Thief
An Unpleasant Predicament
Another Man's Wife
The Peasant Marey
The Crocodile
Bobok
The Dream of a Ridiculous Man
White Nights
A Christmas Tree and a Wedding
A Faint Heart