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White Nights
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Key facts
- Original title
- Белые ночи
- Translator
- Constance Garnett
- Country
- Russian Empire
- Language
- Russian
- Genres
- first-person narrative , romance
- Published in
- Otechestvennye Zapiski
- Publication type
- Newspaper
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- literary work
- Author
- Fyodor Dostoyevsky
- Country of origin
- Russia
- Narrative location
- Saint Petersburg
- Image
- Dostoyevski - White Nights (1865).jpg
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- publication date
- 1848-00-00
- language of work or name
- Russian
- inception
- 1848-00-00
- Commons category
- White Nights (Dostoyevsky)
- title
- Белые ночи
- copyright status
- public domain
- form of creative work
- novella
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Encyclopedic overview
Dostoevsky in the 1850s, a few years after "White Nights.""White Nights" (Russian: Белые ночи, romanized: Belye nochi; original spelling Бѣлыя ночи, Beliya nochi) 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.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “White Nights” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.