Souvenirs de la maison des morts by Fyodor Dostoyevsky

"Souvenirs de la maison des morts" by Fyodor Dostoyevsky is a semi-autobiographical novel published between 1860 and 1862. The work portrays life in a Siberian prison camp through the eyes of nobleman Aleksandr Petrovich Goryanchikov, sentenced to ten years of hard labor. Drawing from Dostoyevsky's own four-year imprisonment, the novel chronicles a spiritual awakening as the narrator overcomes revulsion toward his fellow convicts and discovers their humanity beneath the brutality of prison existence. (This is an automatically generated summary.)

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Author Dostoyevsky, Fyodor, 1821-1881
Uniform Title Zapiski iz mertvogo doma. French
Title Souvenirs de la maison des morts
Note Wikipedia page about this book: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_House_of_the_Dead_(novel) Wikipedia page about this book: fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Souvenirs_de_la_maison_des_morts
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Reading Level Reading ease score: 69.4 (8th & 9th grade). Neither easy nor difficult to read.
Language French
LoC Class PG: Language and Literatures: Slavic (including Russian), Languages and Literature
Subject Exiles -- Russia (Federation) -- Siberia -- Fiction
Category Text
eBook-No. 14918
Release Date
Last Update Dec 19, 2020
Copyright Public domain in the USA.
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