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The House of the Dead (Everyman's Library)

By Fyodor Dostoyevsky , N. Andreev (Introduction) , H. Sutherland Edwards (Translator)

Book information

Publisher
Dutton Adult
Year
1979
ISBN
0460005332, 9780460005333
Open Library ID
OL20664372M
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
1 MB (1057445 bytes)
Pages
129\129
Time added
2011-06-04 13:46:07

Description

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 recounts his soul-destroying incarceration through the cool, detached tones of his narrator, Aleksandr Petrovich Goryanchikov: the daily battle for survival, the wooden plank beds, the cabbage soup swimming with cockroaches, his strange 'family' of boastful, ugly, cruel convicts. Yet "The House of the Dead" is far more than a work of documentary realism: it is also a powerful novel of redemption, describing one man's spiritual and moral death and the miracle of his gradual reawakening.

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