House of the Dead
Author: first_name: Fyodor
last_name: Dostoyevsky
Language: English
Year: 1911

The House of the Dead is a novel published in 1861 by Russian author Fyodor Dostoyevsky, which portrays the life of convicts in a Siberian prison camp.  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.  The narrator, Aleksandr Petrovich Goryanchikov, has been sentenced to penalty deportat