White Nights is a short story by Fyodor Dostoevsky originally published in 1848 early in the writer's career.

Like many of Dostoevsky's stories "White Nights" is told in the first person by a nameless narrator. The narrator is a young man living in Saint Petersburg who suffers from loneliness. He gets to know and falls in love with a young woman but the love remains unrequited as the woman misses her lover with whom she is finally reunited.