White Nights

Author: Dostoevsky

Translated by: Sami Al-Durubi

A romantic novel that tells the story of four nights in the city of St. Petersburg, revolving around a dreaming young man who lives alone and meets a crying girl hoping for the arrival of her beloved. The young man falls in love with her from the first moment, and she comforts him with the illusion of a nascent love. In just a few pages, this novel covers many things: the delirium of a dreaming young man, the hopes of a girl in love, the story of a successful meeting and a failed love, and the lover's justifications and excuses during the moments of romantic anticipation. This is presented in the unique and beautiful style that distinguished Dostoevsky, the great novelist who, throughout his life, never ceased to delve into the human psyche, revealing its depths and secrets. It is an easy-to-read novel and very suitable for beginners in reading Russian literature or for beginners in reading in general. In approximately one hundred pages, the novel tells the story of a sensitive, single young man whose soul yearns for the love of a girl whom he cannot wait to meet, during the white nights of St. Petersburg.