- Published: 1 April 1986
- ISBN: 9780140444568
- Imprint: Penguin Classics
- Format: Paperback
- Pages: 368
- RRP: $19.99
Categories:
The House of the Dead
Formats & editions
Buy from…















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.
- Published: 1 April 1986
- ISBN: 9780140444568
- Imprint: Penguin Classics
- Format: Paperback
- Pages: 368
- RRP: $19.99
Categories:
Other books in the series
The Complete Fables
Aesop
Bleak House
Charles Dickens
A Tale of Two Cities
Charles Dickens
The Complete Odes and Epodes
Horace
The Jungle Books
Rudyard Kipling
The Age of Alexander
Plutarch
Fall Of The Roman Republic
Plutarch
The Makers of Rome
Plutarch
On Sparta
Plutarch
The Rise And Fall of Athens
Plutarch
The Rise of Rome
Plutarch
Rome in Crisis
Plutarch
The Charterhouse of Parma
Stendhal
Love
Stendhal
The Red and the Black
Stendhal
Agricola and Germania
Tacitus
Annals
Tacitus
The Annals of Imperial Rome
Tacitus
Military Dispatches
The Duke Of Wellington