{"product_id":"notes-from-a-dead-house-9780307959614","title":"Notes from a Dead House","description":"\u003cb\u003eA beautiful hardcover edition of the first great prison memoir, Fyodor Dostoevsky's fictionalized account of his life-changing penal servitude in Siberia. Translated by Richard Pevear and Larissa Volokhonsky, with an introduction by Richard Pevear.\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e Sentenced to death for advocating socialism in 1849, Dostoevsky served a commuted sentence of four years of hard labor. The account he wrote afterward, \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eNotes from a Dead House\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e (sometimes translated as \u003ci\u003eThe House of the Dead\u003c\/i\u003e), is filled with vivid details of brutal punishments, shocking conditions, and the psychological effects of the loss of freedom and hope, but also of the feuds and betrayals, the moments of comedy, and the acts of kindness he observed. As a nobleman and a political prisoner, Dostoevsky was despised by most of his fellow convicts, and his first-person narrator--a nobleman who has killed his wife--experiences a similar struggle to adapt. He also undergoes a transformation over the course of his ordeal, as he discovers that even among the most debased criminals there are strong and beautiful souls. \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eNotes from a Dead House\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e reveals the prison as a tragedy both for the inmates and for Russia. It endures as a monumental meditation on freedom. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e Everyman's Library pursues the highest production standards, printing on acid-free cream-colored paper, with full-cloth cases with two-color foil stamping, decorative endpapers, silk ribbon markers, European-style half-round spines, and a full-color illustrated jacket.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eTogether, \u003cb\u003eRICHARD PEVEAR \u003c\/b\u003eand\u003cb\u003e LARISSA VOLOKHONSKY\u003c\/b\u003e have translated works by Tolstoy, Dostoevsky, Chekhov, Gogol, Bulgakov, and Pasternak. They were twice awarded the PEN\/Book-of-the-Month Club Translation Prize (for their versions of Dostoevsky's \u003ci\u003eThe Brothers Karamazov\u003c\/i\u003e and Tolstoy's \u003ci\u003eAnna Karenina\u003c\/i\u003e), and their translation of Dostoevsky's \u003ci\u003eDemons\u003c\/i\u003e was one of three nominees for the same prize. They are married and live in France.\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Everyman's Library","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50641803968786,"sku":"9780307959614","price":20.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_5cc73fe9-8453-4669-ae56-8d9eeac150dc.jpg?v=1733039142","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/notes-from-a-dead-house-9780307959614","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}