Titles In This Set: 1.Notes From The Underground 2.Crime and Punishment 3.The Brothers Karamazov 4.The Devils 5.The6.The House of the Dead Description: Notes From The Underground "But what can a decent man speak of with most pleasure?Answer: Of himself.Well, so I will talk about myself."Notes from the Underground by Fyodor Dostoevsky is believed to be one of the earliest existential novels to be written.Recounted in the form of memories, the unnamed narrator describes a life of morbid isolation, that festers within itself anger, envy and self-hate.Written with biting sarcasm, the story reveals a suffering and tortured soul.The narrator is always questioning things whereas others question little and act easily.He believes that societal expectations are shaping his actions.Is he 'too conscious'?Crime and Punishment "It's a lesson, " he thought, turning cold."This is beyond the cat playing with a mouse... What is it?It's all nonsense, my friend, you are pretending, to scare me!You've no proofs... You simply want to make me lose my head, to work me up beforehand and so to crush me... Is he reckoning on my shattered nerves?"Fyodor Dostoevsky's Crime and Punishment is an intense psychological drama that explores the mind of a murderer, laying bare its torment in minute detail.Rashkolnikov, an impoverished and destitute young man, oscillating between clarity of thought and abject melancholy in the aftermath of committing a gruesome murder, is plagued by suspicions, regrets, fears and hallucinations on his path to redemption in this incisive, emotional tale.The Brothers Karamazov "Fyodor Pavlovitch... began with next to nothing; his estate was of the smallest; he ran to dine at other men's tables, and fastened on them as a toady... he was all his life one of the most senseless, fantastical fellows in the whole district. I repeat, it was not stupidity the majority of these fantastical fellows are shrewd.