White Nights

'I'm a dreamer; I have so little real life that I regard such moments as this one, now, to be so rare that I can't help repeating these moments in my dreams.' One of Dostoyevsky's early short stories, White Nights is a poignant portrayal of loneliness, unrequited love and, ultimately, hope. A young man living alone in Saint Petersburg longs for companionship. With only his old maid, Matryona, to keep him company, he has resigned to a life of loneliness. That is until he meets the charming a...