Notes From Underground & Other Stories by Fyodor Dostoevsky

This Wordsworth Classics collection presents a comprehensive selection of Fyodor Dostoevsky’s short fiction, translated into English. Like his renowned novels, these stories reveal Dostoevsky's profound sympathy for the solitary and dispossessed, delving into complex psychological issues through rich characterization and philosophical meditations on the darker aspects of the human psyche. The collection masterfully blends deadly seriousness with idiosyncratic humor.

The title story, Notes from Underground, features the Underground Man who challenges utilitarianism, championing a perverse yet vibrant masochism instead. Other notable works include A Christmas Tree and a Wedding, detailing the pursuit of a young girl by an older man, Bobok, where corpses gossip in a cemetery, and A Gentle Spirit, exploring the narrator's dawning realization of responsibility for his wife's suicide. Dostoevsky stands unmatched as a commentator on spiritual stagnation.

• Comprehensive collection of Dostoevsky’s short fiction.
• Includes the seminal work, Notes from Underground.
• Features stories exploring complex psychological themes and human depravity.
• Includes an Introduction and Notes by David Rampton, Department of English, University of Ottowa.
• New store stock available.

• Author: Fyodor Dostoevsky
• Translator: Constance Garnett
• Series Editor: Keith Carabine
• Binding: Paperback
• Language: English (Original Russian content)
• Pages: 720 pages
• Publication Date: May 15, 2015
• Dimensions: 127 x 41 x 191 mm (Approx. 5 x 1.6 x 7.5 inches)
• Weight: 1.05 kg (1050g)
• ISBN-13: 978-1840225778
• EAN: 9781840225778
• Release Date: 15 May 2015

Explore the depths of the human condition through the masterful short stories of Fyodor Dostoevsky in this essential Wordsworth Classics edition.