Contents include: Russian Mystery Stories: Alexander Sergeievitch Pushkin - The Queen of Spades, Vera Jelihovsky - The General's Will, Feodor Mikhailovitch Dostoyevsky - Crime and Punishment, Anton Chekhoff - The Safety Match, Vsevolod Vladimirovitch Krestovski - Knights of Industry, Jorgen Wilhelm Bergsoe - The Amputated Arms, Otto Larssen - The Manuscript, Bernhard Severin Ingemann - The Sealed Room, Steen Steensen Blicher - The Rector of Veilbye, Hungarian Mystery Stories: Ferencz Molnar - The Living Death, Maurus Jokai - Thirteen at Table, Etienne Barsony - The Dancing Bear and Arthur Elck - The Tower Room.

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A collection of short stories about detectives, bizarre mysteries and unsolved cases, this volume includes work from Alexander Pushkin, Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Anton Chekhovand more.

Notes from Underground, also translated as Notes from the Underground or Letters from the Underworld, is an 1864 novella by Fyodor Dostoevsky. Notes is considered by many to be one of the first existentialist novels. It presents itself as an excerpt from the rambling memoirs of a bitter, isolated, unnamed narrator (generally referred to by critics as the Underground Man), who is a retired civil servant living in St. Petersburg. The first part of the story is told in monologue form, or the underground man's diary, and attacks emerging Western philosophy, especially Nikolay Chernyshevsky's What Is to Be Done? The second part of the book is called "Apropos of the Wet Snow" and describes certain events that appear to be destroying and sometimes renewing the underground man, who acts as a first person, unreliable narrator and anti-hero.

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