Buried Alive: Or Ten Years of Penal Servitude in Siberia (Classic Reprint)
- ISBN-10
- 0259198218
- ISBN-13
- 9780259198215
- Series
- Buried Alive
- Pages
- 372
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2017-04-14
- Publisher
- Forgotten Books
- Author
- Fedor Dostoyeffsky
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Excerpt from Buried Alive: Or Ten Years of Penal Servitude in Siberia Else he would not have asked him to teach his daughters, but that he was a great misant-hrope, and though he was considered very clever, and had read a great deal, he hardly ever spoke to any one, and it was most dificult to draw him into conversation. There were some people who even suspected him of being mad, but they would hardly have found fault with him for that. He was a great favourite with many of the best families in the place, and might have made himself very useful by writing petitions, etc. It was generally believed that he belonged to a good Old Russian family, and that he had many friends and relations still living; but he had resolutely broken 03 all communication with them. His history was well known. He had murdered his wife in a fit of jealousy, and immediately given himself up to the police. (this had considerably mitigated his sen tence). Such crimes are never judged harshly in Siberia, but rather looked upon as an unfortunate. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
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