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The House of the Dead

By: Fyodor Dostoevsky
Narrated by: Nicholas Boulton
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Completed six years after Dostoyevsky's own term as a convict, The House of the Dead is a semi-autobiographical account of life in a Siberian prison camp, and the physical and mental effects it has on those who are sentenced to inhabit it.

Alexandr Petrovitch Goryanchikov, a gentleman of the noble class, has been condemned to 10 years of hard labor for murdering his wife. He is little prepared for the cruel conditions and punishing temperatures, and struggles to integrate with the other prisoners, who claw for their sanity. Fettered, hungry and isolated, Alexandr Petrovitch must find faith and hope if he is to make his way out alive, and resurrect himself from the "dead house".

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Accessible Memoir • Superb Narration • First-hand Account • Unique Storytelling • Real-life Depiction • Lovely Reading
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Yet another great read or listen in this case, highly recommended for any and all fans of FD!!

The unique and absolutely real storytelling.

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Didn't realise living in the confines of Siberia is not too dissimilar to living in the emerald isles and United Kingdom of Great Britain. In this brilliant narrative there were great steriotypical Northern voices, Irish voices, Scottish voices and Welsh voices. There was even the garnish of the odd English gentlemen. Great narrative. Shame that our world is not in a better place for culture to flourish. Shame indeed!

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I lovely story and very well read by the reader. His reading is much better then the fifteen word requirement for reviews.

A fine book

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Great book. if your looking for an accessible book by dostoevsky that you can casually listen to and enjoy this is it. probably the best place to start with dostoevsky is here. I don't reccomend very many dostoevsky audiobooks because it's just so pointless to even try listening to these books unless you are familiar with the text beforehand, but this one is different and can be thoroughly enjoyed while driving down the road. highly recommend. great narrator also.

most accessible dostoevsky book.

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The quote I hear the most from this book is “Man is a creature who can get accustomed to anything.” Great book, great narration.

Excellent

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The parallels of human nature from the past to the present are astonishing. Man truly never changes.

Amazing Book

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Good narration but the reader doing British and Scottish accents for the Prisoners is odd

Weird accents

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No other narrator brings to life Garnett translations more effectively than Boulton. Extremely pleased with this purchase!

Excellent narration by Nicholas Boulton

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I love Dostoevsky.

And it was a real pleasure to experience some of his earliest writing. And to sense events that occurred early in his life was of great value.

Readers of his have studied these prison years. Reading of them (or listening of them) teaches us a great deal.

Well read. Well recorded.

Thank you!.

Very Glad I Experienced This

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Absolute clarity and inspiring hope. This unforgettable journey into this man's stately existence centered in a profound circumstance propels each and every soul to go on and on like the eagle.....

Humanitarian Literature Essential

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