Cover of Notes from a Dead House by Fyodor Dostoevsky Ebook Notes from a Dead House
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Notes from a Dead House

Author
Fyodor Dostoyevsky
Series
Food For Thought
Language
English
Length
300 pages
ISBN
9781787246072
Published
27 June 2018
Imprint
Adelphi Press
  • Dostoyevsky
  • Dostoyevskiy
  • nihilism
  • humanity
  • life
  • prison
  • punishment
  • ethics
  • society
  • mystical

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Description

Goryanchikov, a gentleman, Siberia, ten years, a wife-murder on the paper. Dostoevsky’s Notes from a Dead House is the camp as a world: peasant convicts, malice, ingenuity, a spiritual thaw that ends in release. Adelphi ebook, semi-autobiographical. Not a thriller. Humanity under a sentence, energy that the prison cannot quite kill. Russian hard labour as a book of faces. The narrator learning to see the men who hate his class. A dead house that still works, sings, and waits.

Author

Fyodor Dostoyevsky was a Russian writer and philosopher who is considered to be one of the greatest novelists of all time. His major works include Crime and Punishment, The Brothers Karamazov, and War and Peace. Dostoyevsky was known for his psychological insight, his criticism of social injustice, and his profound understanding of the human condition.

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