Author: Dostoyevsky, Fyodor

Brand: Penguin

Color: Multicolor

Edition: Reprint

Binding: Paperback

Format: Deckle Edge

Number Of Pages: 368

Release Date: 01-01-1986

Part Number: 1720405

Details: 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.

EAN: 9780140444568

Package Dimensions: 7.7 x 5.1 x 1.0 inches

Languages: English, Russian