{"product_id":"notes-from-underground","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":"Gardners","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":57499181580661,"sku":"9780241820254","price":12.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0612\/7193\/3106\/files\/9780241820254.jpg?v=1786694497","url":"https:\/\/backstory.london\/products\/notes-from-underground","provider":"Backstory","version":"1.0","type":"link"}