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Aug 28, 2023 · Chapter I. The House of the Dead. Our prison stood at the edge of the fortress grounds, close to the fortress wall. One would sometimes, through a chink in the fence, take a peep into God’s world to try and see something; but one could see only a strip of the sky and the high earthen wall overgrown with coarse weeds, and on the wall sentinels ...
Chapter 1 Aleksandr, now the narrator because we are reading the story written in the notebook, describes the appearance of the prison and its layout. At night, the men have to return to their ...
It turns out that Sirotkin was a military recruit who murdered his commanding officer because he found life under him unbearable. In the prison, Sirotkin was on friendly terms with Gazin, whose...
The two prisoners, whom I had found in the entrance hall, went to the left of the corridor, while I entered a room. Before the padlocked door walked a sentinel, musket on shoulder; and not far off was the soldier who was to replace him.
Sep 24, 2023 · Crown 8vo, price 7. 6 d. net each volume. Translated from the Russian by CONSTANCE GARNETT, in fifteen volumes, foolscap 8vo, price, leather, 6, net; and cloth, 4. net each. THE HOUSE OF. THE DEAD. A NOVEL IN TWO PARTS BY. FYODOR DOSTOEVSKY. FROM THE RUSSIAN BY. CONSTANCE GARNETT.
"Memoirs from the House of the Dead" published on by Oxford University Press. In this almost documentary account of his own experiences of penal servitude in Siberia, Dostoevsky describes the physical and mental suffering of the convicts, the squalor and the degradation, in relentless detail.
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A narrator, by the name of Alexander Petrovitch Goryanchikov, is sent to a Siberian prison camp for the murder of his wife. The story explores snapshots from his time in prison which are recorded in his writings as he, like the author, try to cope with the reality of what they have experienced.
