Fyodor Dostoyevsky's The House Of The Dead
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Fyodor Mikhaylovich Dostoyevsky was born in Moscow on Nov. 11, 1825. As
his father was a former military surgeon, Dostoyevsky grew up in the noble class.
He entered the military engineering school at St. Petersburg at age 16.
Shortly after graduating, he resigned his commission and devoted all hi ....
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.... House of the Dead was initially published in Russia, 1860. Upon
initial examination of the work, it appears to be a stream of consciousness
account of Dostoyevsky's four years in a Siberian prison camp. But, upon
further review, it seems to be more an account of Dostoyevsky's personality and
attitudes through these years. In his first year in prison, Dostoyevsky “found
myself hating these fellow-sufferers of mine.” (305) His first day in prison,
several convicts approached him, a m ....
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