The house of the dead: Fyodor Dostoyevsky
โ Scribed by Fyodor Dostoyevsky
- Publisher
- Dover Publications;David & Charles, Dover
- Year
- 1861;2004
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 210 KB
- Category
- Fiction
- ISBN
- 0486434095
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โฆ Synopsis
Accused of political subversion as a young man, Dostoyevsky was sentenced to four years of hard labor at a Siberian prison camp a horrifying experience from which, years later, he developed this semi-autobiographical memoir of a man condemned to penal servitude for murdering his wife. Describing in relentless detail the physical and mental suffering of the convicts, this haunting and remarkable work ranks amoung Dostoyevsky's greatest masterpieces.
Library : General
Formats : EPUB
ISBN : 9780486434094
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