{"product_id":"the-house-of-the-dead-9780140444568","title":"The House of the Dead","description":"'Here was the house of the living dead, a life like none other upon earth'\u003cp\u003eIn January 1850 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 \u003ci\u003eThe House of the Dead\u003c\/i\u003e, were the most agonizing of his life. In 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. Yet \u003ci\u003eThe House of the Dead\u003c\/i\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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis edition includes notes and an introduction discussing the circumstances of Dostoyevsky's imprisonment, the origins of the novel in his prison writings, and the character of Aleksandr Petrovich.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Penguin Group\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 01\/07\/1986\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780140444568\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 368\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.60lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 7.72h x 5.20w x 0.86d","brand":"Fyodor Dostoyevsky","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42916792238261,"sku":"9780140444568","price":11.9,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0473\/0804\/6492\/products\/img_381346d7-b97e-4b54-a052-9b43a758cb54.jpg?v=1687271010","url":"https:\/\/pastforward.org\/products\/the-house-of-the-dead-9780140444568","provider":"Past Forward","version":"1.0","type":"link"}