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The House of the Dead and Poor Folk , by Fyodor Dostoevsky , is part of the Barnes & Noble Classics series, which offers quality editions at affordable prices to the student and the general reader, including new scholarship, thoughtful design, and pages of carefully crafted extras. Here are some of the remarkable features of Barnes & Noble Classics : All editions are beautifully designed and are printed to superior specifications; some include illustrations of historical interest. Barnes & Noble Classics pulls together a constellation of influences—biographical, historical, and literary—to enrich each reader's understanding of these enduring works. Arrested in 1849 for belonging to a secret group of radical utopians, Fyodor Dostoevsky was sentenced to four years in a Siberian labor camp—a terrible mental, spiritual, and physical ordeal that inspired him to write the novel The House of the Dead . Told from the point of view of a fictitious narrator—a convict serving a ten-year sentence for murdering his wife— The House of the Dead describes in vivid detail the horrors that Dostoevsky himself witnessed while in prison: the brutality of guards who relish cruelty for its ow

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Author
Fyodor Dostoevsky
Publisher
Barnes & Noble Classics
Published
2004
Language
EN
ISBN
9781593081942
Category
work of fiction
Subjects
Short Stories, Fiction, Literary Fiction
Rating
4.02 / 5 (1,210 ratings)
Updated
2026-03-13

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