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by Fyodor Dostoevsky
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In this almost documentary account of his own experience of penal servitude in Siberia, renowned Russian writer Dostoevsky describes the physical and mental suffering of the convicts in relentless detail. Written several years after his release, with a strikingly uncharacteristic detachment, MEMOIRS FROM HOUSE OF THE DEAD ranks among Dostoevsky's greatest masterpieces.
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- Title Memoirs from the House of the Dead
- Author Fyodor Dostoevsky
- Binding Papeback
- Edition [ Edition: Repri
- Condition New
- Pages 400
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher Oxford University Press OUP
- Date
- Features Bibliography, Table of Contents
- Bookseller's Inventory # 6680349
- ISBN 9780199540518 / 0199540519
- Weight 0.6 lbs (0.27 kg)
- Dimensions 7.5 x 5 x 0.8 in (19.05 x 12.70 x 2.03 cm)
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Themes
- Cultural Region: Russian
- Library of Congress subjects Siberia (Russia), Exiles
- Dewey Decimal Code FIC
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From the rear cover
In this almost documentary account of his own experience of penal servitude in Siberia, Dostoevsky describes the physical and mental suffering of the convicts, the squalor, the degradation, in relentless detail - even down to the intricate procedure whereby the men strip for the bath without removing their ten-pound leg-fetters. The steam-bath scene itself, where the livid branded bodies seem to burn in the fires of Hell, is an extraordinary tour de force, compared by Trugenev to passages from Dante's 'Inferno.'