The House of the Dead

Fyodor Dostoevsky

• Novel
• Book language: English
• 294 pages

The House of the Dead is a semi-autobiographical novel by Fyodor Dostoevsky, framed as the recollections of a nobleman sentenced to a Siberian prison camp. It portrays daily life, characters, and moral struggles among convicts, and reflects on suffering, freedom, and human dignity. It is worth listening to for its humane insight and vivid setting.

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Text source: standardebooks.org · The work is in the public domain.