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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Main Author: Dostoyevsky, Fyodor 1821-1881 (Author)
Other Authors: Coulson, Jessie, Hingley, Ronald
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Oxford Oxford University Press 1983
Series:The World's classics
Oxford paperbacks
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