The House of the Dead / The Gambler - Wordsworth Classics Special edition Byzantine ivories and French chivalric

Byzantine ivories and French chivalric romances

beautiful even as it depicts some ugly truths

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Three bodies

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The House of the Dead / The Gambler - Wordsworth Classics Special edition Byzantine ivories and French chivalricTranslated by Constance Garnett with an introduction by Anthony Briggs. Dostoevsky's fascination for mental breakdown and violence (20 murders in his four main novels) was based on his own life, and these two unmistakably autobiographical works bear this out. The House of the Dead is fiction, but based on his four years in a Siberian prison. An educated upper class man is condemned to live among criminals and brutal guards, with arbitrary punishments,