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.
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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:
2INTRODUCTION
3PART 1
4CHAPTER I - THE HOUSE OF THE DEAD
5CHAPTER II FIRST IMPRESSIONS
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6CHAPTER III - FIRST IMPRESSIONS
7CHAPTER IV - FIRST IMPRESSIONS
8CHAPTER V - THE FIRST MONTH
9CHAPTER VI - THE FIRST MONTH
10CHAPTER VII - NEW ACQUAINTANCES. PETROV
11CHAPTER VIII - DETERMINED CHARACTERS. LUTCHKA
12CHAPTER IX - ISAY FOMITCH—THE BATH-HOUSE—BAKLUSHIN’S STORY
13CHAPTER X - CHRISTMAS
14CHAPTER XI - THE THEATRICALS
15PART 2
16CHAPTER I - THE HOSPITAL
17CHAPTER II - THE HOSPITAL (continued)
18CHAPTER III - THE HOSPITAL[1] (continued)
19CHAPTER IV - AKULKA’S HUSBAND (A STORY)
20CHAPTER V - SUMMER TIME
21CHAPTER VI - PRISON ANIMALS
22CHAPTER VII - THE COMPLAINT
23CHAPTER VIII - COMRADES
24CHAPTER IX - AN ESCAPE
25CHAPTER X - HOW I LEFT PRISON
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