Memoirs from the House of the Dead

Name: Memoirs from the House of the Dead
Brand: Oxford University Press
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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 Trugenev to passages from Dante's 'Inferno.'

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Binding:: Paperback
Edition:: 1
Number of Pages:: 400
Release Date:: 2008-08-01
Publication Date:: 2008-08-01
Publisher:: Oxford University Press
Languages:: Original: English
ISBN10:: 0199540519
ISBN13:: 9780199540518
GPSR Manufacturer Reference:: [email protected]
Weight:: 270 g
Height:: 130 cm
Width:: 193 cm
Thickness:: 23 cm

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