The House of the Dead

By: Fyodor Dostoevsky

Narrated by: Nicholas Boulton

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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The unique and absolutely real storytelling.

Yet another great read or listen in this case, highly recommended for any and all fans of FD!!

Umm

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!

A fine book

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

This was FAR better than what I was expecting!

With the exception of the first chapter, this book is a memoir of a protagonist life in a Siberian prison camp. However, written by Fyodor Dostoyevsky and narrated by Nicholas Boulton (My absolute favorite Narrator of Russian Literature), this "memoir" comes to life to perfectly portray the life of convicts during those times.

There is nothing extraordinary about this novel and even perhaps the most uneventful book written by Dostoyevsky, but I still found myself enjoying each moment of the 12 hours.

Interesting but Not the Best

Great narrator. Story doesn’t come close to Gulag Archipelago. It does shed some light on a different type of Russian imprisonment.