In 1864, just prior to the years in which he wrote his greatest novels - `Crime and Punishment`, `The Idiot`, `The Possessed` and `The Brothers Karamazov`, Fyodor Dostoyevsky (1821-1881) penned the darkly fascinating `Notes from the Underground`. Its nameless hero is a profoundly alienated individual in whose brooding self-analysis there is a search for the true and the good in a world of relative values and few absolutes. Moreover, the novel introduces themes - moral, religious, political and social - that dominated Dostoyevsky`s later works. `Notes from the Underground`, then, aside from its own compelling qualities, offers readers an ideal introduction to the creative imagination, profund