House of the Dead : Or Prison Life in Siberia

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Dostoyevsky, Fyodor

Edwards, H. S.

Rhys, Ernest

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Exiles in literature.

Labor camps.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (367 p.)

Place of Publication:

The Floating Press

Summary:

In 1849, renowned Russian thinker and novelist Fyodor Dostoyevsky was sentenced to execution for his subversive political beliefs. As he awaited his turn in front of the firing squad, Tsar Nicholas I sent a message commuting the writer's sentence to a period of exile in Siberia. He spent the next four years there engaged in hard labor. Dostoyevsky's gripping novel The House of the Dead is based largely on his own experiences in a Siberian labor camp.

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ISBN:

9781776581672

1776581679