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Book The House of the Dead  or  Prison Life in Siberia

Download or read book The House of the Dead or Prison Life in Siberia written by Fyodor Dostoyevsky and published by Litres. This book was released on 2017-09-05 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The House of the Dead

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  • Author : Fyodor Dostoyevsky
  • Publisher : Literary Licensing, LLC
  • Release : 2014-03
  • ISBN : 9781494147471
  • Pages : 382 pages

Download or read book The House of the Dead written by Fyodor Dostoyevsky and published by Literary Licensing, LLC. This book was released on 2014-03 with total page 382 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This Is A New Release Of The Original 1911 Edition.

Book The House of the Dead

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  • Author : Daniel Beer
  • Publisher : Vintage
  • Release : 2017-01-03
  • ISBN : 0307958914
  • Pages : 496 pages

Download or read book The House of the Dead written by Daniel Beer and published by Vintage. This book was released on 2017-01-03 with total page 496 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Winner of the Cundill History Prize The House of the Dead tells the incredible hundred-year-long story of “the vast prison without a roof” that was Russia’s Siberian penal colony. From the beginning of the nineteenth century until the Russian Revolution, the tsars exiled more than a million prisoners and their families east. Here Daniel Beer illuminates both the brutal realities of this inhuman system and the tragic and inspiring fates of those who endured it. Siberia was intended to serve not only as a dumping ground for criminals and political dissidents, but also as new settlements. The system failed on both fronts: it peopled Siberia with an army of destitute and desperate vagabonds who visited a plague of crime on the indigenous population, and transformed the region into a virtual laboratory of revolution. A masterly and original work of nonfiction, The House of the Dead is the history of a failed social experiment and an examination of Siberia’s decisive influence on the political forces of the modern world.

Book The House of the Dead

Download or read book The House of the Dead written by Fyodor Dostoyevsky and published by DigiCat. This book was released on 2022-11-13 with total page 491 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The House of the Dead is a semi-autobiographical novel, which portrays the life of convicts in a Siberian prison camp. The novel has also been published under the titles Memoirs from the House of The Dead and Notes from the Dead House (or Notes from a Dead House). The book is a loosely-knit collection of facts, events and philosophical discussion organized by "theme" rather than as a continuous story. Dostoyevsky himself spent four years in exile in such a camp following his conviction for involvement in the Petrashevsky Circle. This experience allowed him to describe with great authenticity the conditions of prison life and the characters of the convicts. Notes from Underground presents itself as an excerpt from the rambling memoirs of a bitter, isolated, unnamed narrator (generally referred to by critics as the Underground Man) who is a retired civil servant living in St. Petersburg. The first part of the story is told in monologue form, or the underground man's diary, and attacks emerging Western philosophy, especially Nikolay Chernyshevsky's What Is to Be Done? The second part of the book is called "Apropos of the Wet Snow", and describes certain events that, it seems, are destroying and sometimes renewing the underground man, who acts as a first person, unreliable narrator. It is considered by many to be the first existentialist novel. Fyodor Dostoyevsky (1821–1881) was a Russian novelist, short story writer, essayist, journalist and philosopher. His literary works explore human psychology in the troubled political, social, and spiritual atmosphere of 19th-century Russia. Many literary critics rate him as one of the greatest and most prominent psychologists in world literature.

Book The House of the Dead

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  • Author : Fyodor Dostoyevsky
  • Publisher : CreateSpace
  • Release : 2015-04-25
  • ISBN : 9781511891691
  • Pages : 220 pages

Download or read book The House of the Dead written by Fyodor Dostoyevsky and published by CreateSpace. This book was released on 2015-04-25 with total page 220 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Welcome to Fyodor Dostoyevsky's The House of the Dead. In this edition of this novel, first published in 1861, we are proud to offer you the best edition of this literary masterpiece featuring one of the most acclaimed classics of all times. The House of the Dead is a semi-autobiographical novel published in 1861 in the journal Vremya. by Fyodor Dostoyevsky, which portrays the life of convicts in a Siberian prison camp. The novel has also been published under the titles Memoirs from the House of The Dead and Notes from the Dead House. The House of the Dead is a loosely-knit collection of facts, events and philosophical discussion organised by "theme" rather than as a continuous story. Fyodor Dostoyevsky himself spent four years in exile in such a camp following his conviction for involvement in the Petrashevsky Circle. This experience allowed him to describe with great authenticity the conditions of prison life and the characters of the convicts. Enjoy this Mogul Classics edition of Fyodor Dostoyevsky's The House of the Dead.

Book Memoirs from the House of the Dead

Download or read book Memoirs from the House of the Dead written by Fyodor Dostoyevsky and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 2001 with total page 406 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this almost documentary account of his own experiences of penal servitude in Serbia, Dostoevsky describes the physical and mental suffering of the convicts, the squalor and the degradation, in relentless detail. The inticate procedure whereby the men strip for the bath without removing their ten-pound leg-fetters is an extraordinary tour de force, compared by Turgenev to passages from Dante's Inferno. Terror and resignation - the rampages of a pyschopath, the brief serence interlude of Christmas Day - are evoked by Dostoevsky, writing several years after his release, with a strikingly uncharacteristic detachment. For this reason, House of the Dead is certainly the least Dostoevskian of his works, yet, paradoxically, it ranks among his great masterpieces.

Book The House of the Dead

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  • Author : Fedor Mikhailovich Dostoevskii
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 1929
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : pages

Download or read book The House of the Dead written by Fedor Mikhailovich Dostoevskii and published by . This book was released on 1929 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The House of the Dead

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  • Author : Fyodor Dostoyevsky
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 2020-04-02
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 252 pages

Download or read book The House of the Dead written by Fyodor Dostoyevsky and published by . This book was released on 2020-04-02 with total page 252 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Accused of political subversion as a young man, Fyodor Dostoyevsky was sentenced to four years of hard labor at a Siberian prison camp - a horrifying experience from which he developed this astounding semi-autobiographical memoir of a man condemned to ten years of servitude for murdering his wife.As with a number of the author's other works, this profoundly influential novel brilliantly explores his characters' thoughts while probing the depths of the human soul. Describing in relentless detail the physical and mental suffering of the convicts, Dostoyevsky's character never loses faith in human qualities and the goodness of man.A haunting and remarkable work filled with wonder and resignation, The House of the Dead ranks among the Russian novelist's greatest masterpieces. Of this powerful autobiographical novel, Tolstoy wrote, "I know no better book in all modern literature."

Book The House of the Dead

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  • Author : Fyodor Dostoyevsky
  • Publisher : Open Road Media
  • Release : 2023-03-28
  • ISBN : 1504084497
  • Pages : 322 pages

Download or read book The House of the Dead written by Fyodor Dostoyevsky and published by Open Road Media. This book was released on 2023-03-28 with total page 322 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The semiautobiographical prison account of convict Aleksandr Petrovich Goryanchikov, from the author of Crime and Punishment. Originally published in 1862, The House of the Dead is based on Fyodor Dostoyevsky’s own four-year imprisonment in Siberia for his involvement in the Petrashevsky Circle. This masterpiece of Russian literature begins with a nameless narrator coming upon former convict Aleksandr Petrovich Goryanchikov in a remote Siberian town. Previously a nobleman and landowner, Goryanchikov had been given a ten-year sentence of hard labor for the murder of his wife, a crime of passion sparked by jealousy. After Goryanchikov’s death, the narrator finds a handwritten record of his decade of penal servitude. From his first days in the barracks, friendless and broken in spirit, to the removal of his shackles and freedom, Goryanchikov portrays the experiences of a “lost tribe of men,” and the horrors and degradation they experienced. “Episodic, rambling, full of keen and deliberately stretched-out character sketches, the book is the drama of a person working out how to reproduce prison life in prose: its longueurs, its diversions, its pleasures, traumas, and inurements . . . If Dostoyevsky’s captors had found the ribald, cacophonous commonplace book he assembled out of overheard insults and tossed-off sayings during his time in prison, they would have recognized that they were dealing with a spirit not easily suppressed.” —The Paris Review “I know no better book in all modern literature.” —Leo Tolstoy

Book The House of the Dead

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  • Author : Fyodor Dostoyevsky
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 2020-04-05
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 252 pages

Download or read book The House of the Dead written by Fyodor Dostoyevsky and published by . This book was released on 2020-04-05 with total page 252 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Accused of political subversion as a young man, Fyodor Dostoyevsky was sentenced to four years of hard labor at a Siberian prison camp - a horrifying experience from which he developed this astounding semi-autobiographical memoir of a man condemned to ten years of servitude for murdering his wife.As with a number of the author's other works, this profoundly influential novel brilliantly explores his characters' thoughts while probing the depths of the human soul. Describing in relentless detail the physical and mental suffering of the convicts, Dostoyevsky's character never loses faith in human qualities and the goodness of man.A haunting and remarkable work filled with wonder and resignation, The House of the Dead ranks among the Russian novelist's greatest masterpieces. Of this powerful autobiographical novel, Tolstoy wrote, "I know no better book in all modern literature."

Book The House of the Dead

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  • Author : Fyodor Dostoevsky
  • Publisher : Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
  • Release : 2016-06-30
  • ISBN : 9781535016117
  • Pages : 168 pages

Download or read book The House of the Dead written by Fyodor Dostoevsky and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2016-06-30 with total page 168 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The House of the Dead or Prison Life in Siberia by Feodor Dostoevsky with an introduction by Julius Bramont. The narrator, Aleksandr Petrovich Goryanchikov, has been sentenced to penalty deportation to Siberia and ten years of hard labour for murdering his wife. Life in prison is particularly hard for Aleksandr Petrovich, since he is a "gentleman" and suffers the malice of the other prisoners, nearly all of whom belong to the peasantry. Gradually Goryanchikov overcomes his revulsion at his situation and his fellow convicts, undergoing a spiritual re-awakening that culminates with his release from the camp. It is a work of great humanity; Dostoyevsky portrays the inmates of the prison with sympathy for their plight, and also expresses admiration for their energy, ingenuity and talent. He concludes that the existence of the prison, with its absurd practices and savage corporal punishments is a tragic fact, both for the prisoners and for Russia.

Book HOUSE OF THE DEAD

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  • Author : FEDOR. DOSTOIESFFSKY
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 2018
  • ISBN : 9781033577080
  • Pages : 0 pages

Download or read book HOUSE OF THE DEAD written by FEDOR. DOSTOIESFFSKY and published by . This book was released on 2018 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The House of the Dead Or Prison Life in Siberia

Download or read book The House of the Dead Or Prison Life in Siberia written by Fyodor Dostoevsky and published by . This book was released on 2018-01-17 with total page 494 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The House of the Dead is a semi-autobiographical novel published in 1860-2 in the journal Vremya by Russian author Fyodor Dostoyevsky, which portrays the life of convicts in a Siberian prison camp. The novel has also been published under the titles Memoirs from the House of The Dead and Notes from the Dead House (or Notes from a Dead House). The book is a loosely-knit collection of facts, events and philosophical discussion organised by "theme" rather than as a continuous story. Dostoyevsky himself spent four years in exile in such a camp following his conviction for involvement in the Petrashevsky Circle. This experience allowed him to describe with great authenticity the conditions of prison life and the characters of the convicts.

Book My Fellow Prisoners

Download or read book My Fellow Prisoners written by Mikhail Khodorkovsky and published by ABRAMS. This book was released on 2015-02-24 with total page 60 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Russian oil mogul and activist offers reflections on his decades-long incarceration under Putin in this “illuminating and brave” prison memoir (The Washington Post). Mikhail Khodorkovsky was Russia’s most successful businessman—and an outspoken critic of the Kremlin. As his oil company Yukos revived the Russian oil industry, Khodorkovsky began sponsoring programs to encourage civil society and fight corruption. Then he was arrested at gunpoint. Sentenced to ten years in a Siberian penal colony on fraud and tax evasion charges in 2003, Khodorkovsky was put on trial again in 2010 and sentenced to fourteen years on new charges that contradicted the previous ones. While imprisoned, Khodorkovsky fought for the rights of his fellow prisoners, going on hunger strike four times. After he was pardoned in 2013, he vowed to continue fighting for prisoners’ rights, and this book is dedicated to that work. A moving portrait of the prisoners Khodorkovsky met, My Fellow Prisoners is an eye-opening account of Russia’s brutal prison system. “Vivid, humane and poignant” —Financial Times

Book The House of the Dead

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  • Author : Feodor Dostoieffsky
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 2020-07-15
  • ISBN : 9789354039096
  • Pages : 384 pages

Download or read book The House of the Dead written by Feodor Dostoieffsky and published by . This book was released on 2020-07-15 with total page 384 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The House of the Dead  of Prison Life in Siberia   With an Introd  by J  Bramont

Download or read book The House of the Dead of Prison Life in Siberia With an Introd by J Bramont written by Fedor Michajlovič Dostoevskij and published by . This book was released on 1916 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The House of the Dead

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  • Author : Fyodor Dostoyevsky
  • Publisher : Nabu Press
  • Release : 2013-12-10
  • ISBN : 9781294410492
  • Pages : 386 pages

Download or read book The House of the Dead written by Fyodor Dostoyevsky and published by Nabu Press. This book was released on 2013-12-10 with total page 386 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is a reproduction of a book published before 1923. This book may have occasional imperfections such as missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. that were either part of the original artifact, or were introduced by the scanning process. We believe this work is culturally important, and despite the imperfections, have elected to bring it back into print as part of our continuing commitment to the preservation of printed works worldwide. We appreciate your understanding of the imperfections in the preservation process, and hope you enjoy this valuable book.