Buried Alive, or Ten Years of Penal Servitude in Siberia

A very good copy, spine dulled with a few very small white flecks, edges rubbed, front free endpaper has 3cm close tear along gutter, first blank has been neatly excised, back pastedown splitting along gutter revealing webbing.

In December 1849, Fyodor Dostoevsky was sentenced to death and led out in front of a firing squad. A last minute reprieve halted the execution and he was sent instead to a forced labour camp in Siberia. He was imprisoned there for four years and his exile continued for another six after he was released. These experiences changed him, and fed into all his later work. Buried Alive (now better known as Sketches from the House of the Dead) addresses them directly. First published in the magazine Vremya in two parts in 1860 and 1862, it was the only novel of Dostoevsky's to be translated into English during his lifetime.