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Memoirs from the House of the Dead (Oxford World's Classics)
Memoirs from the House of the Dead - Oxford World's Classics
Author: Fyodor Dostoevsky
In this almost documentary account of his own experiences of penal servitude in Serbia, Dostoevsky describes the physical and mental suffering of the convicts, the squalor and the degradation, in relentless detail. The inticate procedure whereby the men strip for the bath without removing their ten-pound leg-fetters is an extraordinary tour de f...  more »
ISBN-13: 9780199540518
ISBN-10: 0199540519
Publication Date: 8/1/2008
Pages: 400
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Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Book Type: Paperback
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