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EVERYMAN'S LIBRARY
EDITED BY ERNEST RHYS

FICTION

THE HOUSE OF THE DEAD

WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY JULIUS BRAMONT


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A TALE WHICH HOLDETH CHILDREN FROM PLAY
& OLD MEN FROM THE CHIMNEY CORNER

SIR PHILIP SIDNEY




THE HOUSE _of the_ DEAD
_or Prison Life in Siberia_

BY FEDOR DOSTOIEFFSKY

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FIRST ISSUE OF THIS EDITION       1911
REPRINTED                         1914




INTRODUCTION


"The Russian nation is a new and wonderful phenomenon in the history of
mankind. The character of the people differs to such a degree from that
of the other Europeans that their neighbours find it impossible to
diagnose them." This affirmation by Dostoieffsky, the prophetic
journalist, offers a key to the treatment in his novels of the troubles
and aspirations of his race. He wrote with a sacramental fervour whether
he was writing as a personal agent or an impersonal, novelist or
journalist. Hence his rage with the calmer men, more gracious
interpreters of the modern Sclav, who like Ivan Tourguenieff were able
to see Russia on a line with the western nations, or to consider her
maternal throes from the disengaged, safe retreat of an arm-chair exile
in Paris. Not so was _l'ame Russe_ to be given her new literature in the
eyes of M. Dostoieffsky, strained with watching, often red with tears
and anger.

Those other nations, he said--p