THE HOUSE OF THE DEAD: Translation (Penguin Classics) by Fyodor DostoyevskyHere was the house of the living dead, a life like none other upon earth In January 1850 Dostoyevsky was sent to a remote Siberian prison camp for his part in a political conspiracy. The four years he spent there, startlingly re created in The House of the Dead, were the most agonizing of his life. In this fictionalized account he recounts his soul destroying incarceration through the cool, detached tones of his narrator, Aleksandr Petrovich