The House Of The Dead

The House Of The Dead Is A Fictionalized Memoir Of A Man Serving A Ten-year Prison Sentence For Murdering His Wife. Dostoyevsky Drew Heavily From His Own Four-year Prison Internment In A Siberian Prison To Draw Attention To The Dehumanizing, Deadening Effects Of The Modern Prison System And Invoke His Philosophies Of Better Ways Of Treating And Rehabilitating Prisoners.