{"product_id":"9780241820254","title":"Notes from Underground","description":"\u003ch3\u003eAuthor:  Fyodor Dostoyevsky \u003c\/h3\u003e\u003ch4\u003eClassic fiction (pre c 1945)\u003c\/h4\u003e\u003ch5\u003ePublished on 5 November 2026 by Penguin Books Ltd (Penguin Classics) in the United Kingdom as part of 'the Little Clothbound Classics' series\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eHardback | 208 pages\u003cbr\u003e167 x 117 x 21 | 220g\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003c\/h5\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\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\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAlienated from society and paralysed by a sense of his own insignificance, the anonymous narrator of Dostoyevsky's Notes from Underground 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, this Little Clothbound Classics edition has been translated by Ronald Wilks.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\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\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"The Bookhouse Broughty Ferry","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":57673222291831,"sku":"9780241820254","price":12.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0357\/3199\/6807\/files\/9780241820254.jpg?v=1793631789","url":"https:\/\/thebookhousebroughtyferry.co.uk\/products\/9780241820254","provider":"The Bookhouse Broughty Ferry","version":"1.0","type":"link"}