Memoirs from the House of the Dead (Oxford World's Classics (Oxford University Press).)
Contributors: Ronald Hingley (Editor); Jessie Coulson (Translator)
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Published: September 24, 2001
Language: eng
Number of pages: 400
ISBN-13: 9780192838681
First sentence: IN the remoter parts of Siberia, in the midst of the steppes, the mountains, or the pathless forests, lie scattered a few small towns of one, or at most two, thousand inhabitants, plain little towns built of wood, with two churches-one in the town, the other in the cemetery,-which are more like the prosperous villages of the Moscow region than reveal towns.