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The House of the Dead

by Fyodor Dostoevsky

A ex-convict in 19th-century Russia reminisces on his experiences in a Siberian prison.

Themes: Fiction · Memoir

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Siberia is painted as a blessed land—champagne, caviar, game-birds everywhere. But the man who catches your eye is the pale, silent French tutor, and his story hides in the shadows of that cheerful portrait.

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