{"product_id":"the-house-of-the-dead-paperback","title":"The House of the Dead - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eFyodor Dostoyevsky\u003c\/b\u003e (Author), \u003cb\u003eDavid McDuff\u003c\/b\u003e (Translator), \u003cb\u003eDavid McDuff\u003c\/b\u003e (Introduction by)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e'Here was the house of the living dead, a life like none other upon earth'\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn 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 \u003ci\u003eThe House of the Dead\u003c\/i\u003e, 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 \u003ci\u003eThe House of the Dead\u003c\/i\u003e 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eFyodor Dostoyevsky (1821-1881), one of nineteenth-century Russia's greatest novelists, spent four years in a convict prison in Siberia, after which he was obliged to enlist in the army. In later years his penchant for gambling sent him deeply into debt. Most of his important works were written after 1864, including \u003cb\u003eNotes from Underground\u003c\/b\u003e, \u003cb\u003eCrime and Punishment\u003c\/b\u003e, \u003cb\u003eThe Idiot\u003c\/b\u003e, and \u003cb\u003eThe Brothers Karamazov, \u003c\/b\u003e all available from Penguin Classics.\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eDavid McDuff was educated at the University of Edinburgh and has translated a number of works for Penguin Classics, including Dostoyevsky's \u003cb\u003eThe Brothers Karamazov\u003c\/b\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eDavid McDuff was educated at the University of Edinburgh and has translated a number of works for Penguin Classics, including Dostoyevsky's \u003cb\u003eThe Brothers Karamazov\u003c\/b\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 368\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.86 x 7.72 x 5.2 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e January 07, 1986\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51753852109088,"sku":"9780140444568","price":14.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0974\/9764\/5344\/files\/f25f65320cf788f80f7c8ccc70b7af7e.webp?v=1780028401","url":"https:\/\/ebocreations.com\/products\/the-house-of-the-dead-paperback","provider":"The E-Book Oasis LLC","version":"1.0","type":"link"}