White Nights is told in first person by a nameless narrator who lives in Saint Petersburg and suffers from loneliness. He falls in love with a young woman, but the love remains unrequited as the woman misses her lover with whom she is finally reunited.
White Nights and Other Stories also includes:
Notes from Underground,
A Faint Heart,
A Christmas Tree and a Wedding,
Polzunkov,
A little hero,
Mr. Prohartchin.
Fyodor Dostoyevsky was a Russian writer and philosopher whose literary works explore human psychology in the context of the troubled political, social, and spiritual atmosphere of 19th-century Russia.