The House of the Dead

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House of the Dead (1920)
by Fyodor Mikhailovich Dostoevsky, translated by Constance Garnett
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THE HOUSE OF
THE DEAD

THE NOVELS OF
FYODOR DOSTOEVSKY
Volume V

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THE
NOVELS OF FYODOR DOSTOEVSKY

Translated from the Russian by CONSTANCE GARNETT. Crown 8vo, price 7s. 6d. net each volume.

  • THE BROTHERS KARAMAZOV, 838 pages
  • THE IDIOT, 620 pages
  • THE POSSESSED, 637 pages
  • CRIME AND PUNISHMENT
  • THE HOUSE OF THE DEAD
  • THE INSULTED AND INJURED
  • A RAW YOUTH
  • THE ETERNAL HUSBAND
  • THE GAMBLER and other Stories
  • WHITE NIGHTS
  • AN HONEST THIEF
  • THE FRIEND OF THE FAMILY

THE
NOVELS OF IVAN TURGENEV

Translated from the Russian by CONSTANCE GARNETT, in fifteen volumes, foolscap 8vo, price, leather, 6s, net; and cloth, 4s. net each.

  • RUDIN
  • A HOUSE OF GENTLEFOLK
  • ON THE EVE
  • FATHERS AND CHILDREN
  • SMOKE
  • VIRGIN SOIL (2 vols.)
  • A SPORTSMAN'S SKETCHES (2 vols.)
  • DREAM TALES AND PROSE POEMS
  • THE TORRENTS OF SPRING
  • A LEAR OF THE STEPPES, etc.
  • THE DIARY OF A SUPERFLUOUS MAN, etc.
  • A DESPERATE CHARACTER, etc.
  • THE JEW, etc.
  • THE TWO FRIENDS and other Stories
  • KNOCK, KNOCK, KNOCK and other Stories

NOVELS BY COUNT LEO TOLSTOY

Translated from the Russian by CONSTANCE GARNETT.

  • ANNA KARENINA, 920 pages, 7s. 6d. net.
  • THE DEATH OF IVAN ILYITCH and other Stories, 6s. net.

LONDON

William Heinemann, Ltd., 21 Bedford St., W.C.2

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THE HOUSE OF
THE DEAD

A NOVEL IN TWO PARTS BY
FYODOR DOSTOEVSKY

FROM THE RUSSIAN BY
CONSTANCE GARNETT

LONDON
WILLIAM HEINEMANN, LTD.


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First Published February 1915
Second Impression June 1915
Third Impression August 1920
Fourth Impression August 1923

Printed in Great Britain by Richard Clay & Sons, Limited,
Bungay, Suffolk.

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CONTENTS
PART I

  1. CHAPTERPAGE
  2. Introduction 1
  3. I. The House Of The Dead 5
  4. II. First Impressions 19
  5. III. First Impressions (continued) 34
  6. IV. First Impressions (continued) 48
  7. V. The First Month 64
  8. VI. The First Month (continued) 77
  9. VII. New Acquaintances. Petrov 90
  10. VIII.Determined Characters. Lutchka102
  11. IX. Isay Fomitch—the Bath-House—Baklushin’s Story108
  12. X. Christmas 123
  13. XI. The Theatricals 138

PART II

  1. I. The Hospital 157
  2. II. The Hospital (continued) 170
  3. III. The Hospital (continued) 183
  4. IV. Akulka’s Husband 200
  5. V. Summer Time 210
  6. VI. Prison Animals 225
  7. VII. The Complaint 237
  8. VIII.Comrades 253
  9. IX. An Escape 266
  10. X. How I Left Prison 280

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