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Book Review of Notes from the Underground (Dover Thrift Editions)

Notes from the Underground (Dover Thrift Editions)
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In 1864, just prior to the years in which he wrote his greatest novels- Crime and Punishment, The Idiot, The Possessed and The Brothers Karamazov, Fyodor Dostoyevsky penned the darkly fascinating Notes from the Underground. Its nameless hero is a profoundly alienated infividual in whose brroding self analysis there is a search for the true and the good in a world of relative values and few absolutes