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The House of the Dead

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In 1849, renowned Russian thinker and novelist Fyodor Dostoyevsky was sentenced to execution for his subversive political beliefs. As he awaited his turn in front of the firing squad, Tsar Nicholas I sent a message commuting the writer's sentence to a period of exile in Siberia. He spent the next four years there engaged in hard labor. Dostoyevsky's gripping novel The House of the Dead is based largely on his own experiences in a Siberian labor camp.


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Publisher: Duke Classics

Kindle Book

  • Release date: August 12, 2014

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  • ISBN: 9781634211314
  • Release date: August 12, 2014

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  • ISBN: 9781634211314
  • File size: 442 KB
  • Release date: August 12, 2014

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  • ISBN: 9781634211314
  • File size: 437 KB
  • Release date: August 12, 2014

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OverDrive Read
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English

In 1849, renowned Russian thinker and novelist Fyodor Dostoyevsky was sentenced to execution for his subversive political beliefs. As he awaited his turn in front of the firing squad, Tsar Nicholas I sent a message commuting the writer's sentence to a period of exile in Siberia. He spent the next four years there engaged in hard labor. Dostoyevsky's gripping novel The House of the Dead is based largely on his own experiences in a Siberian labor camp.


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