Notes from a Dead House (Everyman Library)(HB) By Fyodor Dostoevsky, Richard Pevear(Translation)

Notes from a Dead House (Everyman Library)(HB) By Fyodor Dostoevsky, Richard Pevear(Translation)A beautiful hardcover edition of the first great prison memoir, Fyodor Dostoevsky's fictionalized account of his life changing penal servitude in Siberia. Translated by Richard Pevear and Larissa Volokhonsky. With an introduction by Richard Pevear. Sentenced to death for advocating socialism in 1849, Dostoevsky served a commuted sentence of four years of hard labor. The account he wrote afterward (sometimes translated as The House of the Dead) is

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