Notes From a Dead House [Audiobook] download free by Fyodor Dostoevsky
- Listen audiobook: Notes From a Dead House
- Author: Fyodor Dostoevsky
- Release date: 2016/9/18
- Publisher: BROADWAY BOOKS (A DIVISION OF BANTAM DOUBLEDAY DELL PUBLISHING GROUP INC)
- Language: English
- Genre or Collection: Poetry and Drama
- ISBN: 9780307949875
- Rating: 7.22 of 10
- Votes: 823
- Review by: Emanuel Hutchings
- Review rating: 8.17 of 10
- Review Date: 2018/9/1
- Duration: 4H11M21S in 256 kbps (67.2 MB)
- Date of creation of the audiobook: 2018-07-07
- You can listen to this audiobook in formats: WMA, WAV, FLAC, MPEG4, MP3, Apple Lossless (compression ALZ, 7Z, RAR, ARJ, EML, ZIP, Z)
- Total pages original book: 336
- Includes a PDF summary of 39 pages
- Duration of the summary (audio): 28M29S (7.8 MB)
- Description or summary of the audiobook: In 1849, Dostoevsky was sentenced to four years at hard labor in a Siberian prison camp for participating in a socialist discussion group. The novel he wrote after his release, based on notes he smuggled out, not only brought him fame, but also founded the tradition of Russian prison writing. Notes from a Dead House (sometimes translated as The House of the Dead) depicts brutal punishments, feuds, betrayals, and the psychological effects of confinement, but it also reveals the moments of comedy and acts of kindness that Dostoevsky witnessed among his fellow prisoners. To get past government censors, Dostoevsky made his narrator a common-law criminal rather than a political prisoner, but the perspective is unmistakably his own. His incarceration was a transformative experience that nourished all his later works, particularly Crime and Punishment. Dostoevsky's narrator discovers that even among the most debased criminals there are strong and beautiful souls. His story is, finally, a profound meditation on freedom: 'The prisoner himself knows that he is a prisoner; but no brands, no fetters will make him forget that he is a human being.'
- Other categories, genre or collection: Crime, Crime Fiction, Contemporary Fiction, Fiction In Translation, Anthologies (non-poetry), Classic Books & Novels
- Download servers: Hotfile, ge.tt, MegaCloud, Mediafire, FileServe, BitShare, Google Drive. Compressed in ALZ, 7Z, RAR, ARJ, EML, ZIP, Z
- Format: Paperback
- Approximate value: 14.77 USD
- Dimensions: 130x199x19mm
- Weight: 242g
- Printed by: Not Available
- Published in: New York, United States
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