A young dreamer, in the vaguely restless magic of Nordic white nights, meets a mysterious maiden and experiences his "sentimental education," marked by a rude awakening resulting in a return to reality. A lyrical, inspired Dostoevsky begins to reflect on the disillusions of existence and love in his last published work before his arrest and deportation. Those experiences will radically and definitively alter his conception of man and art. White Nights is a timeless story of love, longing and human connection, the apparent idyll of the dreamer's romantic fantasies disguises profound loneliness and estrangement from "living life." Its beautiful prose and thought-provoking themes have resonated with readers for generations.
