Notes from Underground and The Double

This Penguin Classics edition brings together two of Dostoyevsky’s shorter works, "Notes from Underground" and "The Double", translated by Ronald Wilks with an introduction by Robert Louis Jackson.

In "Notes from Underground", an alienated narrator recounts his bitter withdrawal from society in a groundbreaking exploration of modern consciousness. *The Double* follows a government clerk who encounters a man identical to himself, in a tragicomic study of identity and psychological conflict.

The volume includes a chronology, bibliography, table of ranks, and notes. Dostoyevsky (1821–1881), also author of "Crime and Punishment", "The Brothers Karamazov", "The Idiot", and "Demons", is widely regarded as a pioneer of the modern novel.