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Original Title:	Записки из Мёртвого дома
ISBN:	0486434095 (ISBN13: 9780486434094)
Edition Language:	English
Characters:	Aleksandr Petrovich Goryanchikov
Setting:	Russian Federation Siberia(Russian Federation)

The House of the Dead

Fyodor Dostoyevsky

Paperback | Pages: 247 pages

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Title	:	The House of the Dead
Author	:	Fyodor Dostoyevsky
Book Format	:	Paperback
Book Edition	:	thrift
Pages	:	Pages: 247 pages
Published	:	April 22nd 2004 by Dover Publications (first published 1861)
Categories	:	Classics. Fiction. Cultural. Russia. Literature. Russian Literature

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Accused of political subversion as a young man, Fyodor Dostoyevsky was sentenced to four years of hard labor at a Siberian prison camp — a horrifying experience from which he developed this astounding semi-autobiographical memoir of a man condemned to ten years of servitude for murdering his wife. As with a number of the author's other works, this profoundly influential novel brilliantly explores his characters' thoughts while probing the depths of the human soul. Describing in relentless detail the physical and mental suffering of the convicts, Dostoyevsky's character never loses faith in human qualities and the goodness of man. A haunting and remarkable work filled with wonder and resignation, The House of the Dead ranks among the Russian novelist's greatest masterpieces. Of this powerful autobiographical novel, Tolstoy wrote, "I know no better book in all modern literature."

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Our prison was at the far end of the citadel behind the ramparts. Peering through the crevices in the palisade in the hope of glimpsing something, one sees nothing but a little corner of the sky, and a high earthwork covered with the long grass of the steppe. Night and day sentries walk to and fro upon it. Then one suddenly realizes that whole years will pass during which one will see, through those same crevices in the palisade, the same sentinels pacing the same earthwork, and the same little

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A fascinating blend of history, fiction, autobiography and philosophy. The House of the Dead marks the start of Dostoevsky's existentialist fiction, this one being based on his own harrowing experiences in the Tsarist prison camps.

Memoirs from the time that Dostoevsky spent in prison. To which he was sent in commutation of his death sentence for being part of the Petrashevsky circle. The press of prisoners forced together in a small bath house strikes him as a vision of hell. A Jewish prisoner impresses everyone by the intensity of his prayer. A man tells a story of how a robber lets a peasant go because he only had an onion on him only to be berated by his chief - 'you fool, you should have murdered him and taken the

Much brighter and lighter than his theme (the diary of a deportee in Siberia ...) could not suggest it, this autobiographical novel especially struck me by its gallery of characters out of the ordinary and its succession of anecdotes, sometimes deeply sad, sometimes edifying, sometimes frankly funny.I was expecting a fierce description of a nightmare, with sadistic masons, prisoners who kill each other, famine and disease, and in the end, it's a story that is almost ... banal, a repetitive

"What I have said of servitude, I again say of imprisonment, we are all prisoners. What is our life but a prison? We are all imprisoned in an island. The world itself to some men is a prison, our narrow seas as so many ditches, and when they have compassed the globe of the earth, they would fain go see what is done in the moon."- Robert Burton, Anatomy of Melancholy: S2.3.4Not top-half Dostoevsky, but a must read still. This book (and Dostoevsky's four years in Siberia) are an obvious rough

"Here there is a world's apart, unlike everything else, with laws of its own, its own dress, its own manners and customs, and here is the house of the living dead - life as nowhere else and a people apart." And the story of this living dead is what Dostoevsky brings to us readers. Based loosely on his own prison experience, this semi-autobiographical novel chronicles the ten-year prison life of Alexander Petrovich in a Siberian prison. The story begins with "gentleman" Alexander's arrival at the