In this revelatory book, Sudhir Venkatesh takes us into Maquis Park, a poor black neighborhood on Chicago's Southside, to explore the desperate and remarkable ways in which a community survives. Richard Pevear and Larissa Volokhonsky, whose Dostoevsky translations have become the standard, give us a brilliantly faithful edition of this classic novel, conveying all the tragedy and tormented comedy of the original. Collects several stories and features "Notes from Underground," in which the narrator leaves his life as an official and goes underground, where he makes obsessive observations on utopianism and the irrational nature of humankind. 'I am a sick person. Impassioned, powerful, disturbing classic about one man's self-torment and alienation. The discovery of a mysterious doppelganger turns Goliadkin's life upside down in The Double, while the psychological novel The Gambler combines aspects of two obsessions: the love of a rejecting woman and the fever of gambling, in an ... Presented here is Constance Garnettâs translation from 1918. This book is part of the Standard Ebooks project, which produces free public domain ebooks. More than a biography in the usual sense, this is a cultural history of nineteenth-century Russia, providing both a rich picture of the world in which Dostoevsky lived and a major reinterpretation of his life and work. Richard Pevear and Larissa Volokhonsky, whose Dostoevsky translations have become the standard, give us a brilliantly faithful edition of this classic novel, conveying all the tragedy and tormented comedy of the original. After signing a confession, he escapes from custody and flees into the cityâs sewer system. This is the devastating premise of this scorching novel, a never-before-seen masterpiece by Richard Wright. On the one hand, the novel's condemnation of moderate reform helped to bring about the irrevocable break between radical intellectuals and liberal reformers; on the other, Chernyshevsky's socialist vision polarized conservatives' opposition ... I am a sick man. Here are some of the remarkable features of Barnes & Noble Classics: New introductions commissioned from today''s top writers and scholars Biographies of the authors Chronologies of contemporary historical, biographical, and cultural events ... In addition to these two existential classics, this collection also includes the psychologically probing stories The Meek One, The Dream of a Ridiculous Man, and White Nights. Traces the history of zine publishing from its origins by science fiction cults, its growth with the 1960s counter culture, and its attachment to punk rock Notes from Underground, also translated as Notes from the Underground or Letters from the Underworld, is an 1864 novella by Fyodor Dostoevsky. Notes is considered by many to be one of the first existentialist novels. THE NATIONAL BESTSELLER At the age of forty-eight, writer and film critic David Denby returned to Columbia University and re-enrolled in two core courses in Western civilization to confront the literary and philosophical masterpieces -- the ... In a work that masterfully combines the study of technology and the study of literature, Rosalind Williams argues that the subterranean environment has become a model for a future dominated by technology. A single, tormented, character dominates both of these short novels written at different stages of Dostoyevsky's career In The Story of an Unknown Man, a political radical spying on an important official by serving as valet to his son gradually discovers that his own terminal illness has changed his long-held priorities in startling ways. The novel consists of the ânotesâ that the man writes, a confused and often contradictory set of memoirs or confessions describing and explaining his alienation from modern society.Notes from Underground is divided into two sections. Most significant of the Russian novelist's early stories (1846) offers straight-faced treatment of hallucinatory theme. Golyadkin senior is ruthlessly persecuted by Golyadkin junior, his double in almost every respect. The story of one man's rant against a corrupt, oppressive society. "Notes From Underground," published in 1864, marks a tuming point in Dostoevsky's writing: it announces the moral political, and social ideas he will treat on a monumental scale in "Crime And Punishment," "The Idiot," and "The Brothers ... Darkly fascinating short novel depicts the struggles of a doubting, supremely alienated protagonist in a world of relative values. Analyzes novels by Stendhal, Dostoevsky, Eliot, Flaubert, Mann, Woolf, and Gadolis in terms of their historical context Found insideTravis Maddox, Eastern University's playboy, makes a bet with good girl Abby that if he loses, he will remain abstinent for a month, but if he wins, Abby must live in his apartment for the same amount of time. There is a genre of literature in which the work is purposely written within the diary format; this type of writings known as diary fiction. In The Education of Cyrus, Xenophon confronts the vexing problem of political instability by exploring the character and behavior of the ruler. In Writerâs Diary Dostoevsky looks back to the journey to Petersburg âI was constantly composing the novel about Venice lifeâ. Set in the twilight years of the Czechoslovak communist regime, recalled from the suburbs of Washington, this novel describes a doomed love affair between two young people trapped by the system. 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Found insideâBEST NONFICTION BOOK OF THE 20TH CENTURY.â âTime Volume 1 of the gripping epic masterpiece, Solzhenitsyn's chilling report of his arrest and interrogation, which exposed to the world the vast bureaucracy of secret police that haunted ... Yet as David Skarbek argues, gangs form to create order among outlaws, producing alternative governance institutions to facilitate illegal activity. Like Notes from Underground, this is a masterly tragi-comic study of human consciousness. Translated by Ronald Wilks with an Introduction by Robert Louis Jackson Found insideArchetypes inform these works and others, bringing vitality to Dostoevskyâs major characters and themes. This research represents a departure from the religious and philosophical questions that have dominated Dostoevsky studies. A collection of Dostoevsky's short stories, including Notes From The Underground which is considered to be one of the first works of existential literature. 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