The House of the Dead – Fyodor Dostoyevsky
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A searing account of the time Dostoyevsky spent in a Siberian prison camp for his part in a political conspiracy. ‘Here was the house of the living dead, a life like none other upon earth’ In January 1850 Dostoyevsky was sent to a remote Siberian prison camp for his part in a political conspiracy. The four years he spent there, startlingly re‑created in *The House of the Dead*, were the most agonizing of his life. In this fictionalized account he describes his soul‑destroying incarceration through the cool, detached tones of his narrator, Aleksandr Petrovich Goryanchikov: the daily battle for survival, the wooden‑plank beds, his strange “family” of boastful, cruel convicts. Yet this is far more than a work of documentary realism; it is also a powerful novel of redemption, exploring one man’s spiritual death and the miracle of his reawakening. Edited with an Introduction and Notes by David McDuff.
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Format: Paperback / softback 368 pages
Classifications: Classic fiction (pre c 1945)
ISBN : 9780140444568
Published : 26 Sep 1985
Author : David McDuff, Fyodor Dostoyevsky
Publisher : Penguin Books Ltd
Size : 196 x 130 x 23 (mm)
Weight : 274g
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