{"product_id":"lcbc-notes-from-underground-hardcover","title":"LCBC: Notes from Underground (Hardcover)","description":"\u003cp\u003e\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.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\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, 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":"Fyodor Dostoyevsky","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":67652863000754,"sku":"9780241820254","price":355.0,"currency_code":"ZAR","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0562\/9191\/8002\/files\/9780241820254-2.jpg?v=1791422087","url":"https:\/\/www.wordsworth.co.za\/products\/lcbc-notes-from-underground-hardcover","provider":"Wordsworth Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}