Length13h 12m
About this audiobook
Between 1850 and 1854 Dostoevsky, imprisoned in the fortress of Omsk, Siberia, served a sentence for political reasons. The four years he spent there, re-created in The House of the Dead, were the most agonizing of his life. The narrating character is a former uxoricide who, after his release from prison, is beset by memories and the need to testify. His memoir thus acquires the urgency of a live reportage, a narrative of formidable expressive power built on the succession of iconic pictures of the prison abyss. Everything is present in this novel: the daily battle for survival, the wooden plank beds, the cabbage soup swimming with cockroaches, his strange `family' of boastful, ugly, cruel convicts. Yet The House of the Dead is far more than a work of documentary realism: it is also a powerful novel of redemption, describing one man's spiritual and moral death and the miracle of his gradual reawakening.
Audiobook details
GenreGeneral Fiction, Mystery and Thriller
Length13 hrs 12 mins
Narrated byListen with 1,000+ voices
FormateBook with Audio
LanguageEnglish
Table of contents
1By the same author in the Cactus catalogue:
14CHAPTER XI - THE THEATRICALS
2INTRODUCTION
15PART 2
3PART 1
16CHAPTER I - THE HOSPITAL
4CHAPTER I - THE HOUSE OF THE DEAD
17CHAPTER II - THE HOSPITAL (continued)
5CHAPTER II FIRST IMPRESSIONS
18CHAPTER III - THE HOSPITAL[1] (continued)
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6CHAPTER III - FIRST IMPRESSIONS
19CHAPTER IV - AKULKA’S HUSBAND (A STORY)
7CHAPTER IV - FIRST IMPRESSIONS
20CHAPTER V - SUMMER TIME
8CHAPTER V - THE FIRST MONTH
21CHAPTER VI - PRISON ANIMALS
9CHAPTER VI - THE FIRST MONTH
22CHAPTER VII - THE COMPLAINT
10CHAPTER VII - NEW ACQUAINTANCES. PETROV
23CHAPTER VIII - COMRADES
11CHAPTER VIII - DETERMINED CHARACTERS. LUTCHKA
24CHAPTER IX - AN ESCAPE
12CHAPTER IX - ISAY FOMITCH—THE BATH-HOUSE—BAKLUSHIN’S STORY
25CHAPTER X - HOW I LEFT PRISON
13CHAPTER X - CHRISTMAS
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