White Nights and Other Stories

Step into the shadowed streets of nineteenth-century St. Petersburg, where longing, loneliness, and the hidden storms of the mind shape every human encounter.

White Nights and Other Stories brings together some of Fyodor Dostoevsky’s most powerful short works—ranging from tender romantic melancholy to sharp psychological intensity. In White Nights, a solitary dreamer meets a young woman during the city’s glowing summer nights, and a brief connection becomes a memory that will last a lifetime. In the groundbreaking Notes from Underground, Dostoevsky introduces one of literature’s most unforgettable voices: a man who turns his intelligence inward, exposing pride, bitterness, and the contradictions of human freedom.

This collection also includes A Faint Heart, A Christmas Tree and a Wedding, Polzunkov, A Little Hero, and Mr. Prohartchin—stories that explore fragile joy, social cruelty, quiet humiliation, innocence, and secret lives.

Intimate, haunting, and deeply human, this volume is essential reading for anyone drawn to classic literature that still feels startlingly modern.