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"White Nights" is a short story by Fyodor Dostoevsky, first published in 1848. Set during St. Petersburg's luminous white nights season, it follows a lonely young dreamer who encounters a young woman named Nastenka by a canal. Over several nights they form a deep emotional bond, but when her long-absent lover finally returns, she leaves the narrator heartbroken yet grateful for the brief happiness. The story is a poignant exploration of loneliness, unrequited love, and the tension between dreams and reality, introducing the "alienated dreamer" motif central to Dostoevsky's later masterpieces.