Notes from the

Underground
 By
Fyodor Dostoyevsky
Dover Publications Inc.
In 1864, just prior to the years in which he wrote his greatest novels
-- Crime and Punishment, The Idiot, The Possessed and The
Brothers Karamazov -- Fyodor Dostoyevsky (1821-1881) penned
the darkly fascinating Notes from the Underground. Its nameless
hero is a profoundly alienated individual in whose brooding self-
analysis there is a search for the true and the good in a world of
relative values and few absolutes. Moreover, the novel introduces
themes -- moral, religious, political and social -- that dominated
Dostoyevsky's later works. Notes from the Underground, then, aside
from its own compelling qualities, offers readers an ideal
introduction to the creative imagination, profundity and uncanny
psychological penetration of one of the most influential novelists of
the nineteenth century. Constance Garnett's authoritative translation
is reprinted here, with a new introduction.

Dover Publications Inc.

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