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From renowned translators Richard Pevear and Lindsay Volokhonsky comes a new translation - certain to become the definitive version - of the first great prison memoir, a fictionalized bank account of Fyodor Dostoevsky's life-changing penal servitude in Siberia. Sentenced to fatality for advocating socialism in 1849, Dostoevsky dished up a commuted sentence of four years of hard labor. The bank account he composed afterward (sometimes translated as The House of the Dead) is filled with vivid information on brutal punishments, surprising conditions, and the emotional effects of the increased loss of freedom and desire but also of the feuds and betrayals, the moments of humor, and the serves of kindness he detected. Being a nobleman and a political prisoner, Dostoevsky was despised by the majority of his fellow convicts, and his first-person narrator - a nobleman who may have killed his wife - experiences a similar struggle to modify. He also undergoes a transformation over the course of his ordeal, as he discovers that even among the most debased criminals there are strong and beautiful souls. Records from a Dead House shows the prison as a tragedy both for the inmates and then for Russia. It endures as a monumental meditation on freedom.

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