Notes from the Underground, The Double and Other Stories
by Fyodor Dostoyevsky 
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I didn't care for the first half at all. It was petty to the point of being depressing.
However I enjoyed the second part very much. Many great points and intriguing perspectives.
Overall Notes from Underground is a great way to get inside the mind of a very psychotic individual.
However I enjoyed the second part very much. Many great points and intriguing perspectives.
Overall Notes from Underground is a great way to get inside the mind of a very psychotic individual.
Short masterpieces by a genius.
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One of the most powerful and significant authors in all modern fiction, Fyodor Dostoevsky was the son of a harsh and domineering army surgeon who was murdered by his own serfs (slaves), an event that was extremely important in shaping Dostoevsky's view of social and economic issues. He studied to be an engineer and began work as a draftsman. show more However, his first novel, Poor Folk (1846), was so well received that he abandoned engineering for writing. In 1849, Dostoevsky was arrested for being a part of a revolutionary group that owned an illegal printing press. He was sentenced to be executed, but the sentence was changed at the last minute, and he was sent to a prison camp in Siberia instead. By the time he was released in 1854, he had become a devout believer in both Christianity and Russia - although not in its ruler, the Czar. During the 1860's, Dostoevsky's personal life was in constant turmoil as the result of financial problems, a gambling addiction, and the deaths of his wife and brother. His second marriage in 1887 provided him with a stable home life and personal contentment, and during the years that followed he produced his great novels: Crime and Punishment (1886), the story of Rodya Raskolnikov, who kills two old women in the belief that he is beyond the bounds of good and evil; The Idiots (1868), the story of an epileptic who tragically affects the lives of those around him; The Possessed (1872), the story of the effect of revolutionary thought on the members of one Russian community; A Raw Youth (1875), which focuses on the disintegration and decay of family relationships and life; and The Brothers Karamazov (1880), which centers on the murder of Fyodor Karamazov and the effect the murder has on each of his four sons. These works have placed Dostoevsky in the front rank of the world's great novelists. Dostoevsky was an innovator, bringing new depth and meaning to the psychological novel and combining realism and philosophical speculation in his complex studies of the human condition. (Bowker Author Biography) show less
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- Notes from the Underground, The Double and Other Stories
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- Notes from the Underground 1864
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- Notes from the Underground
I am a sick man... I am a spiteful man.
The Double
It was a little past eight o'clock in the morning.
White Nights
It was a wonderfull night, such a night as is only possible when we are young dear reader.
The Meek One
...Oh, while she is still here, it is still all right; I go up and look at her every minute; but tomorrow they will take her away-and how shall I be left alone?
The Dream of a Ridiculous Man
I am a ridiculous man.
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- 813 — Literature & rhetoric American literature in English American fiction in English
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- PG3326 .A2 — Language and Literature Slavic languages and literatures. Baltic languages. Albanian language Slavic. Baltic. Albanian Russian literature Individual authors and works 1800-1870 Dostoyevsky
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