{"product_id":"9781681952192","title":"The House of the Dead","description":"\u003cb\u003eThe Life in a Siberian Prison\u003c\/b\u003e\u003ci\u003e“Whoever has experienced the power and the unrestrained ability to humiliate another human being automatically loses his own sensations. Tyranny is a habit, it has its own organic life, it develops finally into a disease. The habit can kill and coarsen the very best man or woman to the level of a beast. Blood and power intoxicate ... the return of the human dignity, repentance and regeneration becomes almost impossible.” - Fyodor Dostoyevsky, The House of the Dead\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cp\u003eWritten after the author himself experienced four years of hard labor in Siberia, The House of the Dead is the story of one Aleksandr Petrovich Goryanchikov – a gentleman from the noble class – who is deported in Siberia for murdering his wife. At first he can’t adapt to the harsh conditions and to the fellow inmates – mostly member of the lower classes. Eventually however, he starts to see the life in Siberia in a different perspective.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Xist Publishing","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47131077542128,"sku":"9781681952192","price":0.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9781681952192_p0.jpg?v=1763695792","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781681952192","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}