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Temporarily out of stock
Title: Double, The
Author: DOSTOEVSKY FYODOR
Format: PAPERBACK
Publication date: 01/11/2016
Imprint: ALMA BOOKS
Price: $11.00
Publishing status: Active
Constantly rebuffed from the social circles he aspires to frequent, the timid clerk Golyadkin is confronted by the sudden appearance of his double, a more brazen, confident and socially successful version of himself, who abuses and victimizes the original. As he is increasingly persecuted, Golyadkin finds his social, romantic and professional life unravelling, in a spiral that leads to a catastrophic denouement…The Double, Dostoevsky’s second published work of fiction, which foreshadows in its themes many of his mature novels, is the surreal and hallucinatory tale of an unfortu – nate anti-hero, at once chilling in its depiction of the dark sides of human nature and exuberantly comical.
ISBN: 9781847496034