The House of the Dead or Prison Life in Siberia
Publisher: Kessinger Publishing
Published: July 30, 2004
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 384
ISBN-13: 9781417938216
Subjects: Classic fiction; Classics; Fiction; Literature - Classics / Criticism; Literature: Classics
First sentence: IN the midst of the steppes, of the mountains, of the impenetrable forests of the desert regions of Siberia, one meets from time to time with little towns of a thousand or two inhabitants, built entirely of wood, very ugly, with two churches-one in the centre of the town, the other in the cementery-in a word, towns which bear much more resemblance to a good-sized village in the suburbs of Moscow than to a town properly so called.