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The House of the Dead by Fyodor Dostoyevsky (1986, UK-B Format Paperback)

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Product Identifiers

Publisher
Penguin Publishing Group
ISBN-10
0140444564
ISBN-13
9780140444568
eBay Product ID (ePID)
40874

Product Key Features

Book Title
House of the Dead
Number of Pages
368 Pages
Language
English
Publication Year
1986
Topic
Classics, Short Stories (Single Author), General, Literary
Genre
Fiction
Author
Fyodor Dostoyevsky
Format
Uk-B Format Paperback

Dimensions

Item Height
0.7 in
Item Weight
9.6 Oz
Item Length
7.8 in
Item Width
5.1 in

Additional Product Features

Intended Audience
Trade
LCCN
86-144949
Grade From
Twelfth Grade
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Grade To
UP
Synopsis
'Here was the house of the living dead, a life like none other upon earth' 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. This edition includes notes and an introduction discussing the circumstances of Dostoyevsky's imprisonment, the origins of the novel in his prison writings, and the character of Aleksandr Petrovich., 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.
LC Classification Number
PG3326.Z3
ebay_catalog_id
4
Copyright Date
2003