A political prisoner recounts four years of Siberian penal servitude — the barracks, the floggings, the strange dignity and cruelty of his fellow convicts — in Dostoevsky's fictionalized account of his own imprisonment.
Books mentioned in The House of the Dead (1)
Taras Bulba by Nikolai Gogol: “I thought of the Jew Jankel, whom Gogol describes in his Tarass Boulba, and who, when undressed and ready to go to bed with his Jewess in a sort of cupboard, resembled a fowl”