The House of the Dead
Fyodor Dostoyevsky
(Author)
David McDuff
(Introduction by)
Description
Its documentary detail---the convicts and their fascinating stories, the wooden plank bed that they sleep on, the cabbage soup swimming with cockroaches that they eat--is made all the more vivid by the controlled, oddly impersonal tone of the narrator. He, like the others, had stepped beyond himself to commit his crime. He found his strange family of convicts boastful, ugly, vain, cruel and ludicrously obsessed with outward appearances. But it is their vitality that overtakes "The House of the Dead," turning the crisis of its narrator into a slow miracle: the return and reawakening of his personality.Product Details
Price
$14.00
Publisher
Penguin Group
Publish Date
January 07, 1986
Pages
368
Dimensions
5.2 X 7.72 X 0.86 inches | 0.6 pounds
Language
English
Type
Paperback
EAN/UPC
9780140444568
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About the Author
Fyodor Dostoyevsky (1821-1881), one of nineteenth-century Russia's greatest novelists, spent four years in a convict prison in Siberia, after which he was obliged to enlist in the army. In later years his penchant for gambling sent him deeply into debt. Most of his important works were written after 1864, including Notes from Underground, Crime and Punishment, The Idiot, and The Brothers Karamazov, all available from Penguin Classics.
David McDuff was educated at the University of Edinburgh and has translated a number of works for Penguin Classics, including Dostoyevsky's The Brothers Karamazov.
David McDuff was educated at the University of Edinburgh and has translated a number of works for Penguin Classics, including Dostoyevsky's The Brothers Karamazov.
