Fyodor Dostoevsky Notes from a Dead House (Hardback) (UK IMPORT)

Description: Further DetailsTitle: Notes from a Dead HouseCondition: NewEAN: 9781841593982ISBN: 9781841593982Publisher: Everyman's LibraryFormat: HardbackRelease Date: 01/28/2021Language: RussianItem Height: 210mmItem Length: 132mmItem Width: 25mmItem Weight: 522gAuthor: Fyodor DostoevskyContributor: Richard Pevear (Introduction by), Larissa Volokhonsky (Translated by), Richard Pevear (Translated by)ISBN-10: 1841593982Description: In 1849 the young Fyodor Dostoevsky was sentenced to four years' hard labour in a Siberian prison camp for advocating socialism. Notes from a Dead House (sometimes translated as The House of the Dead), the novel he wrote on his release, tells of shocking conditions, brutal punishments, and the psychological effects of the loss of freedom and hope; it describes the daily life of the prison community, the feuds and betrayals, the moments of comedy, the unexpected acts of kindness. To avoid censorship, Dostoevsky made his protagonist a common criminal, but the perspective is unmistakably his own. As a member of the nobility he had been despised by his fellow prisoners, most of whom were peasants - an experience shared in the book by Alexander Petrovich Goryanchikov, a nobleman who has killed his wife. Like his creator, Goryanchikov undergoes a transformation over the course of his ordeal, as he discovers 'deep, strong, beautiful natures' amongst even the roughest of the convicts. Notes from a Dead House shows the prison camp as a tragedy for the inmates and a tragedy for Russia. It endures today as a profound meditation on freedom.Country/Region of Manufacture: GBGenre: FictionBook Series: Everyman's Library CLASSICSTranslator: Larissa Volokhonsky, Richard PevearTopic: Classic FictionRelease Year: 2021 Missing Information?Please contact us if any details are missing and where possible we will add the information to our listing.

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