{"product_id":"9780140444568","title":"The House of the Dead","description":"\u003cp\u003e‘Here was the house of the living dead, a life like none other upon earth’\u003c\/p\u003e\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\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Penguin Publishing Group","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47008517751024,"sku":"9780140444568","price":14.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9780140444568_p0.jpg?v=1763642653","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9780140444568","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}