{"product_id":"the-house-of-the-dead-1","title":"The House of the Dead (Penguin Classics)","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Graham Coleman\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eTitle:\u003c\/b\u003e The House of the Dead (Penguin Classics)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eNumber Of Pages:\u003c\/b\u003e 368\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eRelease Date:\u003c\/b\u003e 1986-01-07\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eDetails:\u003c\/b\u003e 'Here was the house of the living dead, a life like none other upon earth'\u003cbr\u003eIn January 1850 Dostoyevsky was sent to a remote Siberian prison camp for his part in a political conspiracy. The four years he spent there, startlingly re-created in The House of the Dead, were the most agonizing of his life. In this fictionalized account he recounts his soul-destroying incarceration through the cool, detached tones of his narrator, Aleksandr Petrovich Goryanchikov: the daily battle for survival, the wooden plank beds, the cabbage soup swimming with cockroaches, his strange 'family' of boastful, ugly, cruel convicts. Yet The House of the Dead is far more than a work of documentary realism: it is also a powerful novel of redemption, describing one man's spiritual and moral death and the miracle of his gradual reawakening.\u003cbr\u003eThis edition includes notes and an introduction discussing the circumstances of Dostoyevsky's imprisonment, the origins of the novel in his prison writings, and the character of Aleksandr Petrovich.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eEAN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780140444568\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003ePackage Dimensions:\u003c\/b\u003e Height: 7.76 Inches, Length: 5.09 Inches, Weight: 0.59304348478 Pounds, Width: 0.84 Inches\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguages:\u003c\/b\u003e en\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Fyodor Dostoyevsky","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51863314137395,"sku":"9780140444568","price":13.7,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0949\/3636\/7411\/files\/27333453482237.jpg?v=1754193901","url":"https:\/\/bookabaloo.com\/products\/the-house-of-the-dead-1","provider":"Bookabaloo","version":"1.0","type":"link"}