The House of the Dead: or, Prison life in Siberia

by Fyodor Dostoevsky, H. S. Edwards (Translator)

Overview

The House of the Dead is a novel published in 1862 by Russian author Fyodor Dostoyevsky, which portrays the life of convicts in a Siberian prison camp. The novel has also been published under the titles Memoirs from the House of The Dead and Notes from the Dead House.

The book is a loosely-knit collection of facts and events connected to life in a Siberian prison, organised by "theme" rather than as a continuous story. Dostoevsky himself spent four years in exile in such a camp following his conviction for involvement in the Petrashevsky circle. This experience allowed him to describe with great authenticity the conditions of prison life and the characters of the convicts.

- Excerpted from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781611980899
Publisher:	MobileReference
Publication date:	03/09/2011
Series:	Mobi Classics
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
File size:	351 KB

About the Author

Few authors have been as personally familiar with desperation as Fyodor Dostoevsky (1821-1881), and none have been so adept at describing it. His harrowing experiences in Russian prisons, combined with a profound religious philosophy, formed the basis for his greatest books: Crime and Punishment, The Idiot, The Possessed, and The Brothers Karamazov. When Dostoevsky died in 1881, he left a legacy of masterful novels that immortalized him as a giant of Russian literature.