The House of the Dead (Dover Thrift Editions)

Accused of political subversion as a young man, Fyodor Dostoyevsky was sentenced to four years of hard labor at a Siberian prison camp — a horrifying experience from which he developed this astounding semi-autobiographical memoir of a man condemned to ten years of servitude for murdering his wife.
As with a number of the author's other works, this profoundly influential novel brilliantly explores his characters' thoughts while probing the depths of the human soul. Describing in relentless detail the physical and mental suffering of the convicts, Dostoyevsky's character never loses faith in human qualities and the goodness of man.
A haunting and remarkable work filled with wonder and resignation, The House of the Dead ranks among the Russian novelist's greatest masterpieces. Of this powerful autobiographical novel, Tolstoy wrote, "I know no better book in all modern literature."

• Notes on the Underground (MIT Press): An Essay on Technology, Society, and the Imagination (The MIT Press)
• The Idiot (Wordsworth Classics)
• The House of the Dead: Siberian Exile Under the Tsars
• Notes from Underground (Vintage Classics)
• We (Modern Library Classics)
• The Brothers Karamazov (Dover Thrift Editions)
• Crime and Punishment
• White Nights
• The Idiot (Vintage Classics)
• The Best Short Stories of Fyodor Dostoevsky (Modern Library)