MEMOIRS FROM THE HOUSE OF THE DEAD
'I know no better book in all modern literature,' was Tolstoy's verdict on Memoirs from the House of the Dead. In this almost documentary account of his own experience of penal servitude in Siberia, Dostoevsky describes the physical and mental suffering of the convicts, the squalor, t...
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| Language: | English |
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Oxford
Oxford University Press
1983
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| Series: | The World's classics
Oxford paperbacks |
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Add Tag | Summary: | 'I know no better book in all modern literature,' was Tolstoy's verdict on Memoirs from the House of the Dead. In this almost documentary account of his own experience of penal servitude in Siberia, Dostoevsky describes the physical and mental suffering of the convicts, the squalor, the degradation, in relentless detail - even down to the intricate procedure whereby the men strip for the bath without removing their ten-pound leg-fetters. The steam-bath scene itself, where the livid branded bodies seem to burn in the fires of Hell, is an extraordinary tour de force, compared by Turgenev to passages from Dante's Inferno. |
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| Item Description: | Translation of: Zapiski iz mertvogo doma. |
| Physical Description: | xxiii, 366 pages 19 cm |
| Bibliography: | Bibliography: p. [xix]-xx. |
| ISBN: | 0192816136 |
CRIME AND PUNISHMENT