Notes from the Underground (Dover Thrift Editions)

by Fyodor Dostoyevsky

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Notes from Underground

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I am a sick man. ... I am a spiteful man.

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"I wished to stifle with external sensations all that was ceaselessly boiling up inside me."

"...because for a woman it is in love that all resurrection, all salvation from ruin of whatever sort, and all regenerations consists, nor can it revel itself in anything but this."

"Leave us to ourselves without a book and we'll immediately get confused, lost -- we won't know what to join, what to hold to, what to love and what to hate, what to respect and what to despise."

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Amazon.com Product Description (ISBN 0451529553, Paperback)

This collection showcases Dostoyevsky's evolving outlook on man's fate. The compelling works presented here were written at distinct periods in the author's life, at decisive moments in his groping for a political philosophy and a religious answer.

Includes: Notes from Underground, White Nights, The Dreams of a Ridiculous Man, and selections from The House of the Dead.

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