
A novel by Fyodor Dostoevsky
White Nights
A shy young dreamer wanders St Petersburg through the pale midsummer twilight of the white nights, speaking to no one, in love with the city itself. On a canal embankment he meets Nastenka, seventeen and waiting a year to the day for the man who promised to return for her.
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A shy young dreamer wanders St Petersburg through the pale midsummer twilight of the white nights, speaking to no one, in love with the city itself. On a canal embankment he meets Nastenka, seventeen and waiting a year to the day for the man who promised to return for her.
Over four luminous nights they trade their histories, and the dreamer, telling her everything he has never said aloud, falls hopelessly in love. Dostoevsky’s most tender story: a whole lifetime of feeling compressed into four nights and a morning. This edition presents the classic Constance Garnett translation, freshly edited for modern British English readers.
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