The House of the Dead, Fyodor Mikhail Dostoyevsky
The House of the Dead, Fyodor Mikhail Dostoyevsky
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The House of the Dead

Author: Fyodor Mikhail Dostoyevsky

Narrator: Nicholas Boulton

Abridged: 12 hr 6 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 03/13/2020

Categories: Fiction, Classic

Synopsis

Completed six years after Dostoyevsky's own term as a convict, The House of the Dead is a semi-autobiographical account of life in a Siberian prison camp, and the physical and mental effects it has on those who are sentenced to inhabit it. Alexandr Petrovitch Goryanchikov, a gentleman of the noble class, has been condemned to ten years of hard labor for murdering his wife. He is little prepared for the cruel conditions and punishing temperatures, and struggles to integrate with the other prisoners, who claw for their sanity. Fettered, hungry and isolated, Alexandr Petrovitch must find faith and hope if he is to make his way out alive, and resurrect himself from the 'dead house'.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Vit on May 20, 2024

Cancel my subscription to the resurrection… Send my credentials to the house of detention… Our prison was at the far end of the citadel behind the ramparts. Peering through the crevices in the palisade in the hope of glimpsing something, one sees nothing but a little corner of the sky, and a high ear......more

Goodreads review by Mohit on June 10, 2014

I have been frequenting an open-air restaurant for 7 years now. Hiding on the roof of a rickety building, in one of the small tributaries of the Jaipur's busiest road, it is aptly named Cocoon. The place is shady, unknown, and visited only by international tourists living in its cheap guest-house. No......more

Goodreads review by Paul on March 04, 2021

Dostoevsky did five years of hard labour in a Siberian prison for being in the wrong room at the wrong time. When he was released in 1854 he had to serve time in the Siberian army and he was still banned from publishing anything. This memoir of his time in the joint finally came out in 1861 and it w......more

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