The house of the dead : $b or, Prison life in Siberia

Name: The house of the dead : $b or, Prison life in Siberia
Author: Dostoyevsky, Fyodor

Dostoyevsky, Fyodor

Exiles -- Fiction; Siberia (Russia) -- Fiction

“There is no denying that the people are morally ill, with a grave,
although not a mortal, malady, one to which it is difficult to assign a
name. May we call it ‘An unsatisfied thirst for truth’? The people are
seeking eagerly and untiringly for truth and for the ways that lead to
it, but hitherto they have failed in their search. After the liberation
of the serfs, this great longing for truth appeared among the
people--for truth perfect and entire, and with it the resurrection of
civic life. There was a clamouring for a ‘new Gospel’; new ideas and
feelings became manifest; and a great hope rose up among the people
believing that these great changes were precursors of a state of things
which never came to pass.”

There is the accent of his hope and his despair. Let it prove to you the
conviction with which he wrote these tragic pages, one that is affecting
at this moment the destiny of Russia and the spirit of us who watch her
as profoundly moved spectators.

JULIUS BRAMONT.




BIBLIOGRAPHY

(_Dostoïeffsky’s works, so far as they have appeared in English._)


     Translations of Dostoïeffsky’s novels have appeared as
     follows:--Buried Alive; or, Ten Years of Penal Servitude in
     Siberia, translated by Marie v. Thilo, 1881. In Vizetelly’s One
     Volume Novels: Crime and Punishment, vol. 13; Injury and Insult,
     translated by F. Whishaw, vol. 17; The Friend of the Family and the
     Gambler, etc., vol. 22. In Vizetelly’s Russian Novels: The Idiot,
     by F. Whishaw, 1887; Uncle’s Dream; and, The Permanent Husband,
     etc., 1888. Prison Life in Siberia, translated by H. S. Edwards,
     1888; Poor Folk, translated by L. Milman, 1894.

     See D. S. Merezhkovsky, Tolstoi as Man and Artist, with Essay on
     Dostoïeffsky, translated from the Russian, 1902; M. Baring,
     Landmarks in Russian Literature (chapter on Dostoïeffsky), 1910.




CONTENTS

                          PART I

CHAP.                                            PAGE

   I. TEN YEARS A CONVICT                            1
  II. THE DEAD-HOUSE                                 7
 III. FIRST IMPRESSIONS                             24
  IV. FIRST IMPRESSIONS (_continued_)               43
   V. FIRST IMPRESSIONS (_continued_)               61
  VI. THE FIRST MONTH                               80
 VII. THE FIRST MONTH (_continued_)                 95
VIII. NEW ACQUAINTANCES--PETROFF                   110
  IX. MEN OF DETERMINATION--LUKA                   125
   X. ISAIAH FOMITCH--THE BATH--BAKLOUCHIN         133
  XI. THE CHRISTMAS HOLIDAYS                       152
 XII. THE PERFORMANCE                              171


                          PART II

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The house of the dead : $b or, Prison life in Siberia

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