{"product_id":"notes-from-underground-isbn-9780241820254","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\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003eA Penguin Classics Hardcover\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\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 Random House","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":52158856331493,"sku":"NP9780241820254","price":28.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"url":"https:\/\/k12savings.com\/products\/notes-from-underground-isbn-9780241820254","provider":"K12savings","version":"1.0","type":"link"}