Notes from Underground and the Double
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- Paperback
352 pages
- Release Date
12 February 2009
Summary
In a new translation by Ronald Wilks, ‘Notes from Underground’ (1864) is a study of a single character, ‘the real man of the Russian majority’, and a revelation of Dostoyevsky’s own deepest beliefs. One of his best critics has said of the first part that it forms his ‘most utterly naked pages. Never afterwards was he so fully and openly to reveal the inmost recesses, unmeant for display, of his heart.’
‘The Double’ (1846) is the nightmarish story of Mr Golyadkin, a man who is haunted …
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780140455120 |
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| ISBN-10: | 0140455124 |
| Author: | Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Ronald Wilks, Robert Louis Jackson |
| Publisher: | Penguin Books Ltd |
| Imprint: | Penguin Classics |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 352 |
| Edition: | 1st |
| Release Date: | 12 February 2009 |
| Weight: | 268g |
| Dimensions: | 197mm x 129mm x 22mm |
| Series: | Penguin Classics |
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About The Author
Fyodor Dostoyevsky
Fyodor Mikhailovich Dostoevsky was born in Moscow in 1821. His debut, the epistolary novella Poor Folk (1846), made his name. In 1849 he was arrested for involvement with the politically subversive ‘Petrashevsky circle’ and until 1854 he lived in a convict prison in Omsk, Siberia. From this experience came The House of the Dead (1860-2). In 1860 he began the journal Vremya (Time). Already married, he fell in love with one of his contributors, Appollinaria Suslova, eighteen years his junior, and developed a ruinous passion for roulette. After the death of his first wife, Maria, in 1864, Dostoyevsky completed Notes from Underground and began work towards Crime and Punishment (1866). The major novels of his late period are The Idiot (1868), Demons (1871-2) and The Brothers Karamazov (1879-80). He died in 1881.
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