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Notes from Underground, Short Stories & The Double, Hardback Book

Notes from Underground, Short Stories & The Double Hardback

Part of the Throne Classics series

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Notes from Underground, also translated as Notes from the Underground or Letters from the Underworld, is an 1864 novella by Fyodor Dostoevsky. Notes is considered by many to be one of the first existentialist novels. It presents itself as an excerpt from the rambling memoirs of a bitter, isolated, unnamed narrator (generally referred to by critics as the Underground Man), who is a retired civil servant living in St. Petersburg. The first part of the story is told in monologue form, or the underground man's diary, and attacks emerging Western philosophy, especially Nikolay Chernyshevsky's What Is to Be Done? The second part of the book is called "Apropos of the Wet Snow" and describes certain events that appear to be destroying and sometimes renewing the underground man, who acts as a first person, unreliable narrator and anti-hero.

Short Stories is a collection of works by the famous Russian author Fyodor Dostoyevsky. 
The collection includes: 
An Honest Thief 
A Novel in Nine Letters 
An Unpleasant Predicament 
Another Man's Wife 
The Heavenly Christmas Tree 
The Peasant Marey 
The Crocodile 
Bobok 
The Dream of a Ridiculous Man

The Double centers on a government clerk who goes mad. It deals with the internal psychological struggle of its main character, Yakov Petrovich Golyadkin, who repeatedly encounters someone who is his exact double in appearance but confident, aggressive, and extroverted, characteristics that are the polar opposites to those of the toadying "pushover" protagonist. The motif of the novella is a doppelgänger (Russian "dvoynik"), known throughout the world in various guises such as the fetch.

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