Download or read book Notes from the Underground, and The Gambler written by Fyodor Dostoevsky and published by Oxford Paperbacks. This book was released on 1999-02-18 with total page 322 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Notes from the Underground (1864) is one of the most profound works of nineteenth-century literature. A probing, speculative book, often regarded as a forerunner of the Existentialist movement, it examines the important political and philosophical questions that were current in Russia and Europe at the time. The Gambler (1866), set in the fictional town of Roulettenberg, explores the compulsive nature of gambling, one of the author's own vices and a subject he describes with extraordinary acumen and drama. Specially commissioned for the World's Classics, this new translation includes a full editorial apparatus. - ;Specially commissioned for the World's Classics, this new translation includes a full editorial apparatus. -