White Nights is Dostoevsky?s ode to the fragile magic of unexpected love. In the soft glow of St. Petersburg?s nights, a lonely dreamer meets Nastenka, and for a brief moment the world shimmers with new possibility. Yet the dawn brings the bittersweet truth: even the brightest encounter may fade. What remains is the memory of a tenderness that transformed him ? if only for a night. This is the English-language paperback edition of the novel. Fyodor Dostoevsky. White Nights. A Sentimental Story from the Diary of a Dreamer. Translated by Constance Garnett. First published in: Otechestvennye Zapiski, Russia 1848. This edition follows: White nights, and other stories, Macmillan, New York 1918. Vollständige Neuausgabe (Complete new edition), 1. Auflage (1st edition), Göttingen 2025. LIWI Literatur- und Wissenschaftsverlag.