About the book: year / This edition includes the stunning to the core "Notes from the House of the Dead" and "Notes from the Underground". Book of essays "Notes from the House of the Dead" by F.M. Dostoevsky (1821 - 1881) wrote immediately after returning from hard labor. This is a unique document, including a story about the fate of real prisoners whom the writer met at hard labor, many characteristic expressions and sayings he heard from the lips of prisoners and soldiers. Each of the heroes of this work has real prototypes. This edition also includes “Notes from the Underground” - a “paradox” story: the theses formulated in the first part and brought into collision with “living life” in its second part reveal their instability and inconsistency.