The House of The Dead by Fyodor Dostoyevsky

Based on Dostoyevsky’s own years in a Siberian prison camp, The House of the Dead offers a stark and deeply human portrait of life behind bars in imperial Russia. Through the fictional memoirs of Alexander Goryanchikov, a nobleman sentenced to hard labor, Dostoyevsky explores the routines, brutalities, and fleeting moments of grace among convicts stripped of freedom but not of soul.

With an introduction by Julius Bramont, this powerful work invites us to ask: how does a man retain his humanity when everything else is taken away?