The House of the Dead (Classics)

by Fydor Dostoevsky | Literature & Fiction |
ISBN: 0140444564 Global Overview for this book
Registered by blum of Slough, Berkshire United Kingdom on 3/28/2008
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Journal Entry 1 by blum from Slough, Berkshire United Kingdom on Friday, March 28, 2008
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.

Journal Entry 2 by blum at Great Park in Windsor, Berkshire United Kingdom on Saturday, May 3, 2008

Released 15 yrs ago (5/3/2008 UTC) at Great Park in Windsor, Berkshire United Kingdom

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Journal Entry 3 by wingAnonymousFinderwing on Thursday, May 8, 2008
I found the book at a memorial just outside Saville Gardens near Egham, I intend to read this book and then find an appropriate location to let it go on a dry day. I have never read Dostoyevsky, but I am looking forward to reading a book by such a classic author. Thank you for giving me this opportunity.

CAUGHT IN VIRGINIA WATER/SAVILLE GARDENS BERKSHIRE ENGLAND

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