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Notes from Underground

Average rating
4 out of 5
Based on 162,873 Ratings and 13,491 Reviews

Book Description
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 w... More
Book Information
PublisherPenguin Books Canada
BindingPaperback (133 editions)
Reading LevelUncategorized
# of Pages160
ISBN-100141024917
ISBN-13978-0141024912
Publication Date10/05/2006
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About Fyodor Dostoyevsky (Author) : Fyodor Dostoyevsky is a published author and a translator of young adult books. Some of the published credits of Fyodor Dostoyevsky include Notes From The Underground, The Gambler, The idiot : a novel... more
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About Ronald Wilks (Translator) : Ronald Wilks is a published translator. A published credit of Ronald Wilks is The Duel and Other Stories (Penguin Classics).
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10/4/2009 Basak Savcigil said: I would describe this book as tragic, disturbing, thought provoking, emotional,extremely witty, paranoid, beautiful
tags: I recommend, Inspired me, I read

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8/31/2007 Elizabeth Bluemle tagged as: I Read

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