num_pages: 266
description: A novel short-listed for the 1997 Booker Prize offers a humorous portrait of the fifth Duke of Portland, a wealthy, eccentric, nineteenth-century aristocrat who constructed a vast network of underground tunnels from which he could escape to the world outside. Reprint.
language: English
title: The Underground Man
titlecomplete: The Underground Man
genres: Historical, Literary Fiction, Novels, Modern, Gothic, Victorian, Historical Fiction, Fiction, Contemporary, British Literature
ratings_count: 1429
awards: awardedAt: 852105600000
name: Booker Prize, awardedAt: 852105600000
name: Authors' Club Best First Novel Award
publisher: Penguin Group USA