Notes from the Underground by F M Dostoevsky

Notes from the Underground by F M Dostoevsky

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Summary

Two of Dostoevsky's most important works are combined here in a single volume. "Notes from the Underground" examines the crucial political and philosophical questions current in the Russia of Tsar Alexander II, while "The Gambler" explores one of Dostoevsky's own vices.

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Notes from the Underground by F M Dostoevsky

One of the most profound and disturbing works of nineteenth-century literature, Notes from the Underground is a probing and speculative work, often regarded as a forerunner to the Existentialist movement. The Gambler explores the compulsive nature of gambling, one of Dostoevsky's own vices and a subject he describes with extraordinary acumen and drama. Both works are new translations, specially commissioned for the World's Classics series.
Fyodor Mikhailovich Dostoyevsky Russian novelist, journalist, short-story writer whose psychological penetration into the human soul had a profound influence on the 20th century novel. Among his most famous works, Notes from Underground, Crime and Punishment (1866), The Idiot (1868-69), and The Possessed (1872). An epileptic all his life, Dostoevsky died in St. Petersburg on February 9 (New Style), 1881.
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ISBN 13 9780192827197
ISBN 10 0192827197
Title Notes from the Underground
Author F M Dostoevsky
Series ^Aworld's Classics Ser
Condition Unavailable
Binding Type Paperback
Publisher Oxford University Press
Year published 1991-11-01
Number of pages 312
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