0
    • Close Modal
    0 0
    Download high-resolution image

    Notes from Underground

    Part of Little Clothbound Classics

    Author Fyodor Dostoyevsky
    Translated by Ronald Wilks
    Cover Design or Artwork by Coralie Bickford-Smith
    Hardcover (Cloth-over-Board, no jacket)
    $28.00 US
    Penguin Adult HC/TR | Penguin Classics
    4-3/4"W x 6-9/16"H | 20 oz | 12 per carton
    On sale Mar 09, 2027 | 144 Pages | 9780241820254
    Add to cart Add to list Exam Copies

    Little Clothbound Classics: irresistible, mini editions of short stories, novellas, and essays from the world's greatest writers, designed by the award-winning Coralie Bickford-Smith

    A Penguin Classics Hardcover

    Alienated from society and paralysed by a sense of his own insignificance, the anonymous narrator of Dostoyevsky's Notes from Underground tells the story of his tortured life. With bitter irony, he describes his refusal to become a worker in the 'anthill' and his gradual withdrawal from society. A masterly tragi-comic study of human consciousness, translated by Ronald Wilks.

    "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
    Fyodor Dostoyevsky (1821–1881), one of nineteenth-century Russia’s greatest novelists, spent four years in a convict prison in Siberia, after which he was obliged to enlist in the army. In later years his penchant for gambling sent him deeply into debt. Most of his important works were written after 1864, including Notes from Underground, Crime and Punishment, The Idiot, and The Brothers Karamazov, all available from Penguin Classics. View titles by Fyodor Dostoyevsky

    About

    Little Clothbound Classics: irresistible, mini editions of short stories, novellas, and essays from the world's greatest writers, designed by the award-winning Coralie Bickford-Smith

    A Penguin Classics Hardcover

    Alienated from society and paralysed by a sense of his own insignificance, the anonymous narrator of Dostoyevsky's Notes from Underground tells the story of his tortured life. With bitter irony, he describes his refusal to become a worker in the 'anthill' and his gradual withdrawal from society. A masterly tragi-comic study of human consciousness, translated by Ronald Wilks.

    "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

    Author

    Fyodor Dostoyevsky (1821–1881), one of nineteenth-century Russia’s greatest novelists, spent four years in a convict prison in Siberia, after which he was obliged to enlist in the army. In later years his penchant for gambling sent him deeply into debt. Most of his important works were written after 1864, including Notes from Underground, Crime and Punishment, The Idiot, and The Brothers Karamazov, all available from Penguin Classics. View titles by Fyodor Dostoyevsky

    Other books in this series

    Other Books by this Author

    Penguin Random House Retail

    © 2026 Penguin Random House

    Back to Top
    0
    Wish List (0)