Publisher's Synopsis
Notes from the Underground, or Letters from the Underworld, is an 1864 novella by Fyodor Dostoyevsky considered by many to be the first existentialist novel. It presents itself as an excerpt from the rambling memoirs of a bitter, isolated, unnamed narrator. This book, Notes from the Underground, was translated by Constance Garnett in 1918 and originally published in the book titled White Nights and Other Stories in 1918 by Heinemann: London.