{"product_id":"the-house-of-the-dead-9789394018235b","title":"The House of the Dead","description":"\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: bold;\"\u003eFyodor Dostoyevsky’s harrowing, semi-autobiographical novel about the internal transformation of a man serving ten years in a remote Siberian prison\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-style: italic;\"\u003e“In order to understand the significance of the style and structure of the book, it is necessary to bear in mind that it was the result of a terrible mental, spiritual, and physical ordeal. . . . The point about the novel, however, is that it charts the reawakening of a man without a personality.”\u003c\/span\u003e—\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: bold;\"\u003efrom the Introduction\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eHere was the house of the living dead, and a life like none other upon earth.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIn January 1850, Fyodor Dostoyevsky was sent to a remote Siberian prison camp for his part in a political conspiracy. The four years he spent there, startlingly re-created in The House of the Dead, were the most agonizing of his life.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIn this fictionalized account he recounts his soul-destroying incarceration through the cool, detached tones of his narrator, Aleksandr Petrovich Goryanchikov: the daily battle for survival, the wooden plank beds, the cabbage soup swimming with cockroaches, his strange ‘family’ of boastful, ugly, cruel convicts.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eYet \u003cspan style=\"font-style: italic;\"\u003eThe House of the Dead\u003c\/span\u003e is far more than a work of documentary realism: it is also a powerful novel of redemption, describing one man’s spiritual and moral death and the miracle of his gradual reawakening.","brand":"Wilco Publishing House","offers":[{"title":"Bargain","offer_id":42824041136208,"sku":"9789394018235B","price":7.49,"currency_code":"CAD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0592\/8173\/5760\/files\/9789394018235-l.jpg?v=1785894962","url":"https:\/\/bookoutlet.com\/en-ca\/products\/the-house-of-the-dead-9789394018235b","provider":"Book Outlet","version":"1.0","type":"link"}