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Notes from underground

Dostoyevsky, FyodorJackson, Robert Louis(Introduction by)Coulson, Jesse(Translated by)
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How far would you go to escape the real world? The underground man had always felt like an outsider.

He doesn't want to be like other people, working in the ant-hill' of society.

So he decides to withdraw from the world, scrawling a series of darkly sarcastic notes about the torment he is suffering.

Angry and alienated, his only comfort is the humiliation of others.

Is he going mad? Or is it the world around him that's insane?

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Penguin Classics
0141024917 / 9780141024912
Paperback
891.733
05/10/2006
United Kingdom
English
Foreign
151 p.
18 cm
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Reprint. This translation originally published: 1972.