Notes from the Underground, and The Gambler

Author

Fyodor Dostoevsky

Original Works

Notes from the Underground·The Gambler

Translator

Jane Kentish

Foreword / Afterword

Malcolm Jones

Annotations

Malcolm Jones

Format

Collection / Anthology

Language

English

Year

2008

Publisher

Oxford World's Classics

Country

United Kingdom

Pages

284

ISBN

9780199536382

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Notes from the Underground (1864) is one of the most profound works of nineteenth-century literature. A probing, speculative book, often regarded as a forerunner of the Existentialist movement, it examines the important political and philosophical questions that were current in Russia and Europe at the time. The Gambler (1866), set in the fictional town of Roulettenberg, explores the compulsive nature of gambling, one of the author's own vices and a subject he describes with extraordinary acumen and drama. Specially commissioned for the World's Classics, this new translation includes a full editorial apparatus.— Google Books