White Nights, and Other Stories is a collection of short fiction by Fyodor Dostoevsky. The title story follows a solitary dreamer in St. Petersburg whose brief encounters during the white nights stir hope and tenderness. The other stories explore loneliness, longing, and compassion among ordinary people.
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Cover of the original edition (Project Gutenberg, public domain).
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Opening of the book
WHITE NIGHTS AND OTHER STORIES THE NOVELS OF FYODOR DOSTOEVSKY Volume X WHITE NIGHTS AND OTHER STORIES BY FYODOR DOSTOEVSKY FROM THE RUSSIAN BY CONSTANCE GARNETT NEW YORK THE MACMILLAN COMPANY 1918 Printed in Great Britain CONTENTS
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A FĵƗƿǵ Hŧĵǡǵ
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A CƒǡƗǪǵƽĵǪ Tǡŧŧ ĵƿŠ ĵ WŧŠŠƗƿƄ
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A LƗǵǵƯŧ HŧǡLj
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Mǡ. PǡLjƒĵǡǵŕƒƗƿ
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WHITE NIGHTS
ĵ ǪŧƿǵƗƽŧƿǵĵƯ ǪǵLjǡΏ żǡLjƽ ǵƒŧ ŠƗĵǡΏ Ljż ĵ Šǡŧĵƽŧǡ
FIRST NIGHT
It was a wonderful night, such a night as is only possible when we are young, dear reader. The sky was so starry, so bright that, looking at it, one could not help asking oneself whether ill-humoured and capricious people could live under such a sky. That is a youthful question too, dear reader, very youthful, but may the Lord put it more frequently into your heart!... Speaking of capricious and ill-humoured people, I cannot help recalling my moral condition all that day. From early morning I had been oppressed by a strange despondency. It suddenly seemed to me that I was lonely, that every one was forsaking me and going away from me. Of course, any one is entitled to ask who "every one" was. For though I had been living almost eight years in Petersburg I had hardly an acquaintance. But what did I want with acquaintances? I was acquainted with all Petersburg as it was; that was why I felt as though they were all deserting me when all
Petersburg packed up and went to its summer villa. I felt afraid of
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