{"product_id":"notes-from-underground-3","title":"Notes from Underground","description":"\u003cb\u003eLittle Clothbound Classics: irresistible, mini editions of short stories, novellas, and essays from the world's greatest writers, designed by the award-winning Coralie Bickford-Smith \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eA Penguin Classics Hardcover \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eAlienated from society and paralysed by a sense of his own insignificance, the anonymous narrator of Dostoyevsky's \u003ci\u003eNotes from Underground\u003c\/i\u003e tells the story of his tortured life. With bitter irony, he describes his refusal to become a worker in the 'anthill' and his gradual withdrawal from society. A masterly tragi-comic study of human consciousness, translated by Ronald Wilks. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\"That sense of the meaninglessness of existence that runs through much of twentieth-century writing--from Conrad and Kafka, to Beckett and beyond--starts in Dostoyevsky's work.\" --Malcolm Bradbury","brand":"Penguin Classics","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48845496582349,"sku":"9780241820254","price":28.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0557\/1529\/9533\/files\/imageloader_78ff0eaf-f9cc-4c20-a1dd-16fd1b4164d8.jpg?v=1792776486","url":"https:\/\/booksatmidnight.com\/products\/notes-from-underground-3","provider":"Books At Midnight","version":"1.0","type":"link"}