The House of the Dead and the Gambler / Fyodor Dostoevsky ; translated by Constance Garnett ; with an introduction by Anthony Briggs
By: Dostoyevsky, Fyodor [author]
Contributor(s): Garnett, Constance [translator] | Briggs, Anthony
Language: English Publisher: Hertfordshire : Wordsworth Editions Limited, ©2010Description: xxiv, 454 pages ; 20 cmContent type: text Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 9781840226294Subject(s): Exiles -- Russia (Federation) -- Siberia -- Fiction | Historical fiction | Autobiographical fiction | Siberia (Russia) -- FictionDDC classification: 891.73 Summary: The House of the Dead was written in 1861, just following Dostoyevsky's four-year prison internment, and there is no doubt that this novel depicts much of what he saw and experienced during that time. The story is written in the form of a fictionalized memoir of a man serving a ten-year prison sentence for murdering his wife. The characters include a whole range of tormented people, from the primitive peasant who kills without understanding that he is destroying a human life to the irritating, anxious antihero of Notes from the Underground, a man who both craves and despises affection| Item type | Current location | Home library | Call number | Status | Date due | Barcode | Item holds |
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The House of the Dead was written in 1861, just following Dostoyevsky's four-year prison internment, and there is no doubt that this novel depicts much of what he saw and experienced during that time. The story is written in the form of a fictionalized memoir of a man serving a ten-year prison sentence for murdering his wife. The characters include a whole range of tormented people, from the primitive peasant who kills without understanding that he is destroying a human life to the irritating, anxious antihero of Notes from the Underground, a man who both craves and despises affection
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