# The House of the Dead

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- Authors: [Fëdor M. Dostoevskij](https://www.bookquiver.com/fedor-m-dostoevskij)
- Language: en_GB
- Published: 2004-02-05
- Genres: Fiction: literary and general non-genre, Modern and contemporary fiction: literary and general

## Description

In January 1850 Dostoyevsky was sent to a remote Siberian prison camp for his part in a political conspiracy. The four years he spent there, startlingly re-created in The House of the Dead, were the most agonizing of his life. In this fictionalized account he recounts his soul-destroying incarceration through the cool, detached tones of his narrator, Aleksandr Petrovich Goryanchikov: the daily battle for survival, the wooden plank beds, the cabbage soup swimming with cockroaches, his strange ‘family’ of boastful, ugly, cruel convicts. Yet The House of the Dead is far more than a work of documentary realism: it is also a powerful novel of redemption, describing one man’s spiritual and moral death and the miracle of his gradual reawakening.

## Editions

### The House of the Dead

- Publisher: Alma Classics
- ISBN: 978-18-4749-666-9
- Pages: 352
- Published: 2018-05-31
- Language: en_US

### The House of the Dead

- Publisher: Penguin Classics
- ISBN: 978-01-4044-456-8
- Pages: 368
- Published: 2004-02-05
- Language: en_GB

### The House of the Dead

- Publisher: Penguin
- Medium: ebook
- ISBN: 978-01-4191-586-9
- Published: 2004-02-05
- Language: en_GB

## This book in other languages

- [Aufzeichnungen aus einem toten Haus](https://www.bookquiver.com/fjodor-michailowitsch-dostojewski/de/aufzeichnungen-aus-einem-toten-haus) (de_DE)
- [Les carnets de la maison morte](https://www.bookquiver.com/fiodor-dostoievski/fr/les-carnets-de-la-maison-morte) (fr_FR)
- [Memorie da una casa di morti](https://www.bookquiver.com/fedor-m-dostoevskij/it/memorie-da-una-casa-di-morti) (it_IT)
- [死の家の記録](https://www.bookquiver.com/fyodor-dostoyevsky/ja/shino-ie-no-kiroku) (ja_JP)
- [Wspomnienia z martwego domu](https://www.bookquiver.com/fiodor-dostojewski/pl/wspomnienia-z-martwego-domu) (pl_PL)
- [Cadernos da Casa Morta](https://www.bookquiver.com/fiodor-dostoievski/pt/cadernos-da-casa-morta) (pt_PT)