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*Notes from the Underground and
The Double
Translated by Ronald Wilks
Introduction by Robert Louis Jackson
These two novels of inner turmoil mark
a turning point for Dostoyevsky and are
among his most personally revealing.
Notes from Underground portrays a
nihilistic who probes into the dark
underside of man’s nature; The Double is a
classic study of psychological breakdown.
352 pp. 978-0-14-045512-0 $14.00
Poor Folk and Other Stories
Translated with an Introduction and Notes
by David McDuff
Dostoyevsky’s first great literary triumph,
the novella Poor Folk is presented here,
along with “The Landlady,” “Mr.
Prokharchin,” and “Polzunkov.”
288 pp. 978-0-14-044505-3 $12.00
The Village of Stepanchikovo
Translated with an Introduction by
Ignat Avsey
This work introduces a Dostoyevsky
unfamiliar to most readers, revealing his
unexpected talents as a humorist and
satirist. While its lighthearted tone and
amusing plot make it a joy to read, it also
contains the prototypes of characters who
appear in his later works.
224 pp. 978-0-14-044658-6 $15.00
See The Portable Nineteenth-Century
Russian Reader.
FrederiCk douglass
1818 – 1895, american
My Bondage and My Freedom
Edited with an Introduction and Notes by
John David Smith
Ex-slave Frederick Douglass’s second
autobiography—written after ten years of
reflection following his legal emancipation
in 1846 and his break with his mentor
William Lloyd Garrison—catapulted
Douglass into the international spotlight
as the foremost spokesman for black
Americans, both freed and slave.
384 pp. 978-0-14-043918-2 $12.00
FrederiCk douglass
Born Frederick Augustus Washington Bailey in 1818 in Tuckahoe, Maryland,
Frederick Douglass changed his surname to conceal his identity after escaping
slavery in 1838 and making his way to Philadelphia and New York. Having been
taught to read by the wife of one of his former owners, Douglass wrote later that
literacy was his “pathway from slavery to freedom,” and in 1845 he published his
instantly bestselling Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, an American Slave,
followed by My Bondage and My Freedom (1855) and Life and Times of Frederick
Douglass (1881, 1892). Beginning a long career in journalism in 1847, he later
held several appointed positions in the United States Government. Renowned as
the foremost African American advocate against slavery and segregation of his
time, he died in Washington, D.C., in 1895, and after lying in state in the nation’s
capital, was buried in the Mount Hope Cemetery in Rochester, New York.
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