| Author |
Dostoyevsky, Fyodor, 1821-1881, author.
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| Publication |
Richmond, Surrey : Alma Classics, 2018.
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| Copyright date |
©2018 |
| Description |
x, 332 pages : illustrations, portraits ; 20 cm. |
| Call # |
FIC DOSTOYEVSKY |
| Series |
Alma classics
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Alma classics.
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| Note |
First published in Russian in 1860-62. |
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Translation of: Zapiski iz mertvogo doma. |
| Contents |
Extra material: Dostoevsky's life; works. |
| Bibliography |
Includes annotated bibliography of the author's works and select reading bibliography (pages 322-332). |
| Summary |
Written in the form of a diary, 'The House of the Dead' recounts the story of Alexander Goryanchikov, a gentleman who is condemned to ten years' hard labour for killing his wife in a fit of rage. Initially the target of the other inmates' malice, he gradually settles in and becomes an avid observer of the new world around him, watching his fellow prisoners being brutally and cruelly punished by the guards, listening to their past stories of blood and murder and learning that even convicts are capable of acts of pure generosity, as when they sacrifice their own meal to feed a stray dog that wanders around the camp. |
| Note |
Translated from the Russian. |
| Subject |
Exiles -- Russia (Federation) -- Siberia -- Fiction.
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Prisoners -- Fiction.
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Siberia (Russia) -- Fiction.
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Exiles. (OCoLC)fst00918139
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Russia (Federation) -- Siberia. (OCoLC)fst01243666 |
| Genre |
Fiction. (OCoLC)fst01423787
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| Addl. Author |
Cockrell, Roger, translator.
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| Addl. Title |
Zapiski iz mertvogo doma. English. (Cockrell)
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| ISBN |
9781847496669 |
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1847496660 |
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