The house of the dead
by Fyodor Dostoyevsky
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The House of the Dead (Russian: Записки из Мёртвого дома, Zapiski iz Myortvovo doma) is a semi-autobiographical novel published in 1860–2 in the journal Vremya by Russian author Fyodor Dostoevsky, which portrays the life of convicts in a Siberian prison camp. The novel has also been published under the titles Memoirs from the House of The Dead, Notes from the Dead House (or Notes from a Dead House), and Notes from the House of the Dead. The book is, essentially, a disguised memoir; a loosely-knit collection of facts, events and philosophical discussion organised by "theme" rather than as a continuous story. Dostoevsky himself spent four years in exile in such a prison following his conviction for involvement in the Petrashevsky Circle. This experience allowed him to describe with great authenticity the conditions of prison life and the characters of the convicts.
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Poor, Exiles, Classic Literature, Fiction, Social conditions, Russian Short stories, Russia, Fiction, general, Continental european fiction (fictional works by one author), Slavic philology, Social life and customs, Translations into English, Prisons, Long Now Manual for CivilizationTimes
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Memoirs From The House Of The Dead
2008, Oxford University Press, USA, Oxford University Press
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Récits de la maison des morts
January 4, 1999, Flammarion
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Souvenirs de la maison des morts
March 15, 1977, Gallimard
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Originally published: New York : Macmillan, 1915.
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"Our prison stood at the edge of the fortress, right next to the ramparts."
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