The Sound and the Fury

William Faulkner

The story of the dissolution of the once aristocratic Compson family, told through the minds of three of its members, including the imbecilci Benjy - 'the tale told by an idiot'. In very different ways they prove inadequate to their own family history, unable to deal with either the responsibility of th...

Notes from Underground and the Double

Fyodor Dostoyevsky

'The best thing is to do nothing! Better conscious inertia! So, long live the underground!'Alienated from society and paralysed by a sense of hose own insignificance, the anonymous narrator of Dostoyevsky's groundbreaking Notes from Undergroundtells the story of his tortured life. With bitter irony, he ...