The House Of The Dead – Fyodor Dostoevsky

Description

Based on Fyodor Dostoevsky’s own years as a prisoner in a Siberian labour camp, The House of the Dead is narrated by a nobleman sentenced to ten years’ hard labour for murdering his wife. He describes prison life, the brutality, the humour and the surprising humanity of his fellow convicts.

A powerful, semi-autobiographical novel that shaped Dostoevsky’s later masterpieces.