THE HOUSE OF THE DEAD AND THE GAMBLER (WORDSWORTH CLASSICS)

The House of the Dead and The Gambler by Fyodor Dostoevsky. Translated by Constance Garnett With an introduction by A. D. P. Briggs. The House of the Dead is a stark account of Dostoyevsky's own experience of penal servitude in Siberia. In graphic detail he describes the suffering of the convicts their squalor and degradation, their terror and resignation, from the rampages of a psychopath to the brief serenity of Christmas Day.