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Notes from underground and, the double

A single, tormented, character dominates both of these short novels written at different stages of Dostoyevsky's career.

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Main Author:	Dostoyevsky, Fyodor, 1821-1881
Other Authors:	Wilks, Ronald
Format:	Books Print Book
Language:	English Russian
Published:	London ; New York : Penguin, 2009.
Series:	Penguin classics.
Subjects:	Dostoyevsky, Fyodor, > 1821-1881 > Translations into English. Doppelgängers > Fiction. Russia > History > 1801-1917 > Fiction. Russia > Social life and customs > Fiction. Philosophical fiction. Political fiction. Historical fiction.
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Summary:	A single, tormented, character dominates both of these short novels written at different stages of Dostoyevsky's career.
Physical Description:	lv, 291 pages ; 20 cm.
Bibliography:	Includes bibliographical references (pages l-lii).
ISBN:	9780140455120 0140455124
Author Notes:	Fyodor Mikhailovich Dostoevsky was born in Moscow in 1821. His debut, the epistolary novella Plt;iPgt;Poor FolkPlt;/iPgt;(1846), made his name. In 1849 he was arrested for involvement with the politically subversive P#39;Petrashevsky circleP#39; and until 1854 he lived in a convict prison in Omsk, Siberia. From this experience came Plt;iPgt;The House of the Dead Plt;/iPgt;(1860-2). In 1860 he began the journal Plt;iPgt;VremyaPlt;/iPgt; (Time). Already married, he fell in love with one of his contributors, Appollinaria Suslova, eighteen years his junior, and developed a ruinous passion for roulette. After the death of his first wife, Maria, in 1864, Dostoyevsky completed Plt;iPgt;Notes from UndergroundPlt;/iPgt; and began work towards Plt;iPgt;Crime and PunishmentPlt;/iPgt; (1866). The major novels of his late period are Plt;iPgt;The IdiotPlt;/iPgt; (1868), Plt;iPgt;DemonsPlt;/iPgt;(1871-2) and Plt;iPgt;The Brothers KaramazovPlt;/iPgt; (1879-80). He died in 1881.