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The House of the Dead
Behind the iron gates of a Siberian prison, where frost bites deeper than regret, a nobleman condemned for murder watches souls unravel and humanity flicker like candlelight in the wind. The House of the Dead is both a brutal chronicle of incarceration and a meditative search for grace in a world stripped of dignity. Through the eyes of its introspective narrator, we confront a haunting question: can suffering purify, or does it simply erode? In this stark yet lyrical portrayal of degradation and unexpected tenderness, punishment becomes a mirror—reflecting not just guilt, but the strange resilience of the human spirit.
- Originally Published: 1861
- Publisher: Dover Publications, 2004
- Genre: Fiction
- Pages: 446
- Book Type: Hardcopy
- ISBN-13: 978-0486434094
- Access: Members