The House of the DeadBy: Fyodor Dostoyevsky A searing account of the time Dostoyevsky spent in a Siberian prison camp for his part in a political conspiracy Here was the house of the living dead, a life like none other upon earth In January 1850 Dostoyevsky was sent to a remote Siberian prison camp for his part in a political conspiracy. The four years he spent there, startlingly re created in The House of the Dead, were the most agonizing of his life. In this