Little 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.

Alienated from society and paralysed by a sense of his own insignificance, the anonymous narrator of Dostoyevsky\'s Notes from Underground 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.

\'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