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Author: Fyodor Dostoevsky. Title: Notes from Underground. Format: Paperback. Item Weight: 176g. Item Width: 13mm. Item Length: 131mm. Item Height: 202mm. Country/Region of Manufacture: US.

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Published in 1864, Notes from Underground is considered the author's first masterpiece - the book in which he became Dostoevsky - and is seen as the source of all his later works. Richard Pevear and Larissa Volokhonsky, whose acclaimed translations of The Brothers Karamazov and Crime and Punishment have become the standard versions in English, w give us a superb new rendering of this early classic. Presented as the fictional apology and confession of the underground man - formerly a mir official of mid-nineteenth-century Russia, whom Dostoevsky leaves nameless, as one critic wrote, because 'I' is all of us - the vel is divided into two parts: the first, a half-desperate, half-mocking political critique; the second, a powerful, at times absurdly comical account of the man's breakaway from society and descent underground. The book's extraordinary style - brilliantly violating literary conventions in ways never before attempted - shocked its first readers and still shocks many Russians today. This magnificent new translation captures for the first time all the stunning idiosyncrasy of the original.

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Random House USA Inc, Vintage Books
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067973452x
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9780679734529
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F. M. Dostoevsky
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New York
Author Biography
Fyodor Mikailovich Dostoevsky s life was as dark and dramatic as the great novels he wrote. He was born in Moscow in 1821. A short first novel, Poor Folk (1846) brought him instant success, but his writing career was cut short by his arrest for alleged subversion against Tsar Nicholas I in 1849. In prison he was given the silent treatment for eight months (guards even wore velvet soled boots) before he was led in front a firing squad. Dressed in a death shroud, he faced an open grave and awaited execution, when suddenly, an order arrived commuting his sentence. He then spent four years at hard labor in a Siberian prison, where he began to suffer from epilepsy, and he returned to St. Petersburg only a full ten years after he had left in chains. His prison experiences coupled with his conversion to a profoundly religious philosophy formed the basis for his great novels. But it was his fortuitous marriage to Anna Snitkina, following a period of utter destitution brought about by his compulsive gambling, that gave Dostoevsky the emotional stability to complete Crime and Punishment (1866), The Idiot (1868-69), The Possessed (1871-72), and The Brothers Karamazov (1879-80). When Dostoevsky died in 1881, he left a legacy of masterworks that influenced the great thinkers and writers of the Western world and immortalized him as a giant among writers of world literature.
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11/12/2011
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United States

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The greatest novel of all time. It has it all. Good story, enthralling philosophy, and it included perhaps the best short story "The Grand Inquisitor".

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