The House of the Dead & The Gambler by Constance Garnett, Fyodor Dostoevsky, Anthony Briggs

The House of the Dead & The Gambler

Constance Garnett, Fyodor Dostoevsky, Anthony Briggs

454 pages first pub 1867 (editions)

fiction classics dark reflective sad slow-paced
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The House of the Dead is a stark account of Dostoyevsky's own experience of penal servitude in Siberia. In graphic detail he describes the suffering of the convicts - their squalor and degradation, their terror and resignation, from the rampages o...

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