The House of the Dead Or Prison Life in Siberia

Download or read book The House of the Dead Or Prison Life in Siberia written by Fyodor Dostoevsky and published by . This book was released on 2018-01-17 with total page 494 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The House of the Dead is a semi-autobiographical novel published in 1860-2 in the journal Vremya by Russian author Fyodor Dostoyevsky, which portrays the life of convicts in a Siberian prison camp. The novel has also been published under the titles Memoirs from the House of The Dead and Notes from the Dead House (or Notes from a Dead House). The book is a loosely-knit collection of facts, events and philosophical discussion organised by "theme" rather than as a continuous story. Dostoyevsky himself spent four years in exile in such a camp following his conviction for involvement in the Petrashevsky Circle. This experience allowed him to describe with great authenticity the conditions of prison life and the characters of the convicts.