Notes from Underground and the Double

by Fyodor Dostoevsky and Fyodor Mikhailovich Dostoyevsky

Book Overview

Collected here in Penguin Classics are two of Fyodor Dostoyevsky's shorter works, Notes from Underground and The Double, translated by Ronald Wilks with an introduction by Robert Louis Jackson. Alienated from society and paralysed by a sense of his own insignificance, the anonymous narrator of Dostoyevsky's groundbreaking Notes from Underground tells the story of his tortured life. With bitter irony, he describes his refusal to become a worker in...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0140455124
• ISBN13: 9780140455120
• Release Date: April 2009
• Publisher: Penguin Classics
• Length: 352 Pages
• Weight: 0.59 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 5.2" x 7.7"
• Age Range: 18 years and up
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher

Customer Reviews

A master of discerning the heart

These are two great stories to introduce you to Fyodor Dostoyevsky. They are shorter and more accessible to a beginner reader. I cannot recommend them enough.