Category: Novels
I. TEN YEARS A CONVICT 1 II. THE DEAD-HOUSE 7 III. FIRST IMPRESSIONS 24 IV. FIRST IMPRESSIONS (_continued_) 43 V. FIRST IMPRESSIONS (_continued_) 61 VI. THE FIRST MONTH 80 VII. THE FIRST MONTH (_continued_) 95 VIII. NEW ACQUAINTANCES--PETROFF 110 IX. MEN OF DETERMINATION--LUKA...
I. TEN YEARS A CONVICT 1 II. THE DEAD-HOUSE 7 III. FIRST IMPRESSIONS 24 IV. FIRST IMPRESSIONS (_continued_) 43 V. FIRST IMPRESSIONS (_continued_) 61 VI. THE FIRST MONTH 80 VII....
2. PART III. THE HOSPITAL 194 II. THE HOSPITAL (_continued_) 209 III. THE HOSPITAL (_continued_) 225 IV. THE HUSBAND OF AKOULKA 248 V. THE SUMMER SEASON 264 VI. THE ANIMALS AT THE CONVICT...
3. CHAPTER I.In the midst of the steppes, of the mountains, of the impenetrable forests of the desert regions of Siberia, one meets from time to time with little towns of a thousand or two i...
4. CHAPTER II.Our prison was at the end of the citadel behind the ramparts. Looking through the crevices between the palisade in the hope of seeing something, one sees nothing but a little co...
5. CHAPTER III.During the first weeks, and naturally the early part of my imprisonment, made a deep impression on my imagination. The following years on the other hand are all mixed up togethe...
6. CHAPTER IV.To see a convict drunk in the middle of the day, when every one was about to be sent out to work--given the well-known severity of the Major, who at any moment might come to the...
7. CHAPTER V.The verification was made by a non-commissioned officer accompanied by two soldiers. When by chance an officer was present, the convicts were drawn up in the court-yard, but gen...
8. CHAPTER VI.Three days after my arrival I was ordered to go to work. The impression left upon me to this day is still very clear, although there was nothing very striking in it, unless one...
9. CHAPTER VII.When I entered the convict prison I possessed a small sum of money; but I carried very little of it about with me, lest it should be confiscated. I had gummed some banknotes int...
10. CHAPTER VIII.Time went on, and little by little I accustomed myself to my new life. The scenes I had daily before me no longer afflicted me so much. In a word, the convict prison, its inhabi...
11. CHAPTER IX.It is difficult to speak of these men of determination. In the convict prison, as elsewhere, they are rare. They can be known by the fear they inspire; people beware of them. An...
12. CHAPTER X.But the Christmas holidays were approaching, and the convicts looked forward to them with solemnity. From their mere appearance it was easy to see that something extraordinary w...
13. CHAPTER XI.The holidays were approaching. On the eve of the great day the convicts scarcely ever went to work. Those who had been assigned to the sewing workshops, and a few others, went t...
14. CHAPTER XII.On the evening of the third day of the holidays took place our first theatrical performance. There had been much trouble about organising it. But those who were to act had taken...
15. CHAPTER I.Shortly after the Christmas holidays I felt ill, and had to go to our military hospital, which stood apart at about half a verst (one-third of a mile) from the fortress. It was...
16. CHAPTER II.The doctors used to visit the wards in the morning, towards eleven o’clock; they appeared all together, forming a procession, which was headed by the chief physician. An hour an...
17. CHAPTER III.I have spoken here of punishments and of those who have administered them, because I got a very clear idea on the subject during my stay in the hospital. Until then I knew of th...
18. CHAPTER IV.It was late at night, about eleven o’clock. I had been sleeping some time and woke up with a start. The wan and weak light of the distant lamp barely lit the room. Nearly everyb...
19. CHAPTER V.April is come; Holy Week is not far off. We set about our summer tasks. The sun becomes hotter and more brilliant every day; the atmosphere has the spring in it, and acts upon o...
20. CHAPTER VI.Gniedko, a bay horse, was bought a little while afterwards, and the event furnished a much more agreeable and interesting diversion to the convicts than the visit of the high pe...
21. CHAPTER VII.“In the first chapter of the ‘Recollections of the House of the Dead,’ something was said about a parricide, of noble birth, who was put forward as an instance of the insensibil...
22. CHAPTER VIII.As will be understood, those to whom I was most drawn were people of my own sort, that is, those of “noble” birth, especially in the early days; but of the three ex-nobles in th...
23. CHAPTER IX.A little while after the Major resigned, our prison was subjected to a thorough reorganization. The “hard labour” hitherto inflicted, and the other regulations, were abolished,...
24. CHAPTER X.This incident occurred during my last year of imprisonment. My recollection of what occurred this last year is as keen as of the events of the first years; but I have gone into...