Description: Further DetailsTitle: Memoirs from the House of the DeadCondition: NewEAN: 9780199540518ISBN: 9780199540518Publisher: Oxford University PressFormat: PaperbackRelease Date: 06/12/2008Item Height: 195mmItem Length: 128mmItem Width: 17mmAuthor: Fyodor DostoevskyTranslator: Jessie CoulsonContributor: Ronald Hingley (Edited by), Jessie Coulson (Translated by)Language: EnglishISBN-10: 0199540519Description: In this almost documentary account of his own experiences of penal servitude in Siberia, Dostoevsky describes the physical and mental suffering of the convicts, the squalor and the degradation, in relentless detail. The inticate procedure whereby the men strip for the bath without removing their ten-pound leg-fetters is an extraordinary tour de force, compared by Turgenev to passages from Dante's Inferno. Terror and resignation - the rampages of a pyschopath, the brief serence interlude of Christmas Day - are evoked by Dostoevsky, writing several years after his release, with a strikingly uncharacteristic detachment. For this reason, House of the Dead is certainly the least Dostoevskian of his works, yet, paradoxically, it ranks among his great masterpieces. ABOUT THE SERIES: For over 100 years Oxford World's Classics has made available the widest range of literature from around the globe. Each affordable volume reflects Oxford's commitment to scholarship, providing the most accurate text plus a wealth of other valuable features, including expert introductions by leading authorities, helpful notes to clarify the text, up-to-date bibliographies for further study, and much more.Country/Region of Manufacture: GBGenre: FictionBook Series: Oxford World's ClassicsTopic: Classic FictionItem Weight: 278gRelease Year: 2008 Missing Information?Please contact us if any details are missing and where possible we will add the information to our listing.
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Publication Name: Memoirs from the House of the Dead
Title: Memoirs from the House of the Dead
EAN: 9780199540518
ISBN: 9780199540518
Release Date: 06/12/2008
Release Year: 2008
Translator: Jessie Coulson
Contributor: Jessie Coulson (Translated by)
ISBN-10: 0199540519
Country/Region of Manufacture: GB
Series: Oxford World's Classics
Book Title: Memoirs from the House of the Dead
Number of Pages: 400 Pages
Language: English
Publisher: Oxford University Press, Incorporated
Item Height: 0.7 in
Publication Year: 2008
Topic: General, Literary
Genre: Literary Criticism, Fiction
Item Weight: 9.9 Oz
Author: Fyodor Dostoevsky, Jessie Coulson
Item Length: 7.7 in
Book Series: Oxford World's Classics Ser.
Item Width: 5 in
Format: Trade Paperback
