Notes from Underground
$38.82
- Hardcover
208 pages
- Release Date
9 February 2027
Summary
Dostoyevsky’s classic novella of alienation in St Petersburg, in an irresistible Little Clothbound Classics edition designed by Coralie Bickford-Smith.
“That sense of the meaninglessness of existence that runs through much of twentieth-century writing - from Conrad and Kafka, to Beckett and beyond - starts in Dostoyevsky’s work” - Malcolm Bradbury
Alienated from society and paralysed by a sense of his own insignificance, the anonymous narrator of Dostoyevsky’s Notes from U…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780241820254 |
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| ISBN-10: | 0241820251 |
| Author: | Fyodor Dostoyevsky |
| Publisher: | Penguin Books Ltd |
| Imprint: | Penguin Classics |
| Format: | Hardcover |
| Number of Pages: | 208 |
| Release Date: | 9 February 2027 |
| Weight: | 222g |
| Dimensions: | 21mm x 119mm x 167mm |
| Series: | Little Clothbound Classics |
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Fyodor Dostoyevsky
Fyodor Mikhailovich Dostoyevsky 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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