Notes from the Underground

Complete and unabridged, with 60 full-page plates by Vladimir Makovsky, Ivan Shishkin and Arkhip Kuindzhi. A retired civil servant lives in a corner of Petersburg and addresses the reader with forty pages of argument nobody asked for: that reason will not make men good, that a man may choose his own harm simply to prove he is free. Then he tells the story that proves it. Dostoevsky wrote it after ...