THE PURPLE NOTEBOOK
White Nights
Белые ночи
Fyodor Mikhailovich Dostoevsky, in an English–Russian bilingual edition conceived as a handcrafted book and visual work published by The Purple Notebook.
Read the opening
The illustrations accompany the reading from two perspectives: the Dreamer in the English pages and Nastenka in the Russian pages. The English version was prepared for The Purple Notebook in 2026 from the publisher’s Spanish edition.
Read the free 9-page opening below. The illustrated digital edition contains 169 pages.