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26%OFFDaniel Beer - The House of the Dead - 9780241957523 - V9780241957523
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The House of the Dead

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Description for The House of the Dead Paperback. Num Pages: 512 pages. BIC Classification: 1DVUA; 1FCS; 3JH; HBJD; HBJF; HBLL. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 198 x 129. .
WINNER OF THE CUNDHILL HISTORY PRIZE 2017 SHORTLISTED FOR THE WOLFSON HISTORY PRIZE 2017, THE PUSHKIN HOUSE RUSSIAN BOOK PRIZE 2017 AND THE LONGMAN-HISTORY TODAY BOOK PRIZE 2017 THE TIMES, SPECTATOR, BBC HISTORY and TLS BOOKS OF THE YEAR 'Masterful, gripping ... filled with astonishing, vivid and heartbreaking stories of crime and punishment, of redemption, love and terrifying violence. It has an amazing cast of despots, murderers, whores and heroes. It's a wonderful read' Simon Sebag Montefiore It was known as 'the vast prison without a roof'. From the ... Read more

Product Details

Publisher
Penguin
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2017
Condition
New
Number of Pages
512
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780241957523
SKU
V9780241957523
Shipping Time
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99-50

About Daniel Beer
Daniel Beer is Senior Lecturer in the Department of History at Royal Holloway, University of London. He is the author of Renovating Russia: The Human Sciences and the Fate of Liberal Modernity, 1880-1930, 2008.

Reviews for The House of the Dead
Daniel Beer's The House of the Dead: Siberian exile under the Tsars (Allen Lane) is both a gripping read and an extraordinary feat of scholarly analysis, delivered with the scope and empathy of a novelist - appositely, as both Dostoevsky and Chekhov are part of Siberia's story. The microhistories as well as the grand narrative illuminate a terrible swathe of ... Read more

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