The House of the Dead
Fyodor Dostoevsky • 1862
Devastation Rating
prison survival literary fiction historical
Our Take
Dostoevsky served four years in a Siberian prison camp and turned the experience into fiction that reads like testimony. The prisoners are rendered with such humanity that the system meant to degrade them is the only thing that looks degraded. Every page is a quiet act of resistance.
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