Description: Title: Notes from a Dead House Author: Dostoyevsky, Fyodor Publisher: Everyman's Library Binding: Hardcover Pages: 376 Dimensions: 8.10h x 5.20w x 1.10d Product Weight: 1.1 lbs. Language: English ISBN: 9780307959614 A beautiful hardcover edition of the first great prison memoir, Fyodor Dostoevsky's fictionalized account of his life-changing penal servitude in Siberia. Translated by Richard Pevear and Larissa Volokhonsky, with an introduction by Richard Pevear. Sentenced to death for advocating socialism in 1849, Dostoevsky served a commuted sentence of four years of hard labor. The account he wrote afterward, Notes from a Dead House (sometimes translated as The House of the Dead), is filled with vivid details of brutal punishments, shocking conditions, and the psychological effects of the loss of freedom and hope, but also of the feuds and betrayals, the moments of comedy, and the acts of kindness he observed. As a nobleman and a political prisoner, Dostoevsky was despised by most of his fellow convicts, and his first-person narrator--a nobleman who has killed his wife--experiences a similar struggle to adapt. He also undergoes a transformation over the course of his ordeal, as he discovers that even among the most debased criminals there are strong and beautiful souls. Notes from a Dead House reveals the prison as a tragedy both for the inmates and for Russia. It endures as a monumental meditation on freedom. Everyman's Library pursues the highest production standards, printing on acid-free cream-colored paper, with full-cloth cases with two-color foil stamping, decorative endpapers, silk ribbon markers, European-style half-round spines, and a full-color illustrated jacket. Ships Fast From The USA! Authorized Dealer
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Original Language: Russian
Book Title: Notes from a Dead House
Number of Pages: 376 Pages
Language: English
Publisher: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
Item Height: 1.1 in
Publication Year: 2021
Topic: Classics, Crime, Russian & Former Soviet Union
Genre: Fiction, Literary Collections
Item Weight: 18.4 Oz
Item Length: 8.3 in
Author: Fyodor Dostoevsky
Item Width: 5.1 in
Book Series: Everyman's Library Classics Ser.
Format: Hardcover
