num_pages: 454
description: The House of the Dead is a stark account of Dostoyevsky's own experience of penal servitude in Siberia. In graphic detail he describes the suffering of the convicts - their squalor and degradation their terror and resignation from the rampages of a pyschopath to the brief serenity of Christmas Day. Amid the horror of labour in the sub-zero work camp we hear the stories of the prisoners and live through the freezing isolation and pain of day after day of misery. We see a young intellectual forced to live eat and sleep with men from a background of cruelty coarseness and brutality.Alternate edition of ISBN-10: 1840226293 / ISBN-13: 9781840226294
language: English
title: The House of the Dead & The Gambler
publisher: Wordsworth Classics