{"product_id":"9780140442526","title":"Notes from Underground; the Double","description":"‘It is best to do nothing! The best thing is conscious inertia! So long live the underground!’Alienated from society and paralysed by a sense of his own insignificance, the anonymous narrator of Dostoyevsky’s groundbreaking \u003ci\u003eNotes from Underground\u003c\/i\u003e tells the story of his tortured life. With bitter sarcasm, he describes his refusal to become a worker in the ‘ant-hill’ of society and his gradual withdrawal to an existence ‘underground’. The seemingly ordinary world of St Petersburg takes on a nightmarish quality in \u003ci\u003eThe Double\u003c\/i\u003e when a government clerk encounters a man who exactly resembles him – his double perhaps, or possibly the darker side of his own personality. Like \u003ci\u003eNotes from Underground,\u003c\/i\u003e this is a masterly study of human consciousness.Jessie Coulson’s introduction discusses the stories’ critical reception and the themes they share with Dostoyevksy’s great novels.\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Fyodor Dostoyevsky","offers":[{"title":"Paperback \/ softback Trade paperback (US)","offer_id":45895528284372,"sku":"9780140442526","price":20.0,"currency_code":"CAD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1000\/9208\/files\/BNCImageAPI_ae370a6c-ded2-4933-94fa-680dc2d2d7ac.jpg?v=1732395944","url":"https:\/\/penguinshop.ca\/products\/9780140442526","provider":"Penguin Shop","version":"1.0","type":"link"}