The House of the Dead or Prison Life in Siberia with an introduction by Julius Bramont
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This book was converted from its physical edition to the digital format by a community of volunteers. You may find it for free on the web. Purchase of the Kindle edition includes wireless delivery.
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ASIN: B005UFSEPI
Pages no: 295
Edition language: English
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At last… When I started this book it seemed catchy. It was interesting how Dostoyevsky described life in jail. He didn’t give so much importance to the crimes committed. Rather, he was writing about life in jail and how prisoners arrived there. So far so good. The problem is that this book goes nowh...
This is one of those very rare books where I read the first two sentences and know instantly that I was going to love it. The House of the Dead is one of the post-imprisonment books that Dostoevsky wrote, and in short, it is the story of a man sentenced to ten years imprisonment for the murder of hi...
This is a semi-autobiographical account of Dostoyevsky's time in prison. It lacks a sense of time or a plot. The first part of the book has a sort of temporal structure, but Dostoyevsky leaps out of it so frequently, that it is completely undermined. The narrator is strangely distant, he speaks m...
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