The House of the Dead - (Penguin Classics) Annotated by Fyodor Dostoyevsky (Paperback)
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<p/><br></br><p><b> About the Book </b></p></br></br>"This annotated edition first published 1985; reprinted with a new Chronology and Further Reading 2003."<p/><br></br><p><b> Book Synopsis </b></p></br></br>'Here was the house of the living dead, a life like none other upon earth'<p>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 <i>The House of the Dead</i>, 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 <i>The House of the Dead</i> 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.</p><p>This 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.</p><p/><br></br><p><b> About the Author </b></p></br></br>Fyodor 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 <b>Notes from Underground</b>, <b>Crime and Punishment</b>, <b>The Idiot</b>, and <b>The Brothers Karamazov, </b> all available from Penguin Classics.<br><p>David McDuff was educated at the University of Edinburgh and has translated a number of works for Penguin Classics, including Dostoyevsky's <b>The Brothers Karamazov</b>.</p><br><p>David McDuff was educated at the University of Edinburgh and has translated a number of works for Penguin Classics, including Dostoyevsky's <b>The Brothers Karamazov</b>.</p>
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