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THE HOUSE OF THE DEAD
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| By: |
Fyodor Dostoyevsky, David McDuff (Trans), David McDuff |
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Paperback |
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| ISBN 10: |
0140444564 |
| ISBN 13: |
9780140444568 |
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| Publisher: |
PENGUIN BOOKS LTD |
| Pub. date: |
26 September, 1985 |
| Pages: |
368 |
| Translated from: |
Russian |
| Description: |
In January, 1850, Dostoyevsky was sent to a remote Siberian prison camp for his part in a political conspiracy. In this fictionalized account, he recounts his soul-destroying incarceration - the daily battle for survival, the wooden plank beds, the cabbage soup swimming with cockroaches, his strange 'family' of boastful, ugly, cruel convicts. |
| Synopsis: |
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. |
| Publication: |
UK |
| Imprint: |
Penguin Classics |
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