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Record Nr.

UNINA9910160793403321

Autore

Dostoyevsky Fyodor

Titolo

The House of the Dead

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Munchen : , : Liese, Andreas. OUTSIDE THE BOX, , 1999

©1999

ISBN

3-95676-253-3

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (283 p.)

Collana

Classics to Go Series

Soggetti

Autobiographical fiction

Prison discipline

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Sommario/riassunto

"The House of the Dead" is a semi-autobiographical novel published in 1861 by Russian author Fyodor Dostoyevsky, which portrays the life of convicts in a Siberian prison camp.The book is a loosely-knit collection of facts and events 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.