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.