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DOSTOEVSKY, Fyodor (1821-1881). Zapiski iz mertvago doma [Memoirs from the House of the Dead]. St. Petersburg: Iosafat Ogrizko, 1862.
The first complete edition of this early masterpiece by Dostoevsky, greatly appreciated by Tolstoy and which Lenin described as an 'unsurpassed work of Russian and world literature'. Dostoevsky's passionate description of life in a Siberian prison camp is based on his own experience; it 'provided the Russian public with its first, terrifying image of what lay ahead for those sentenced for a political crime [...] No writer was now more celebrated than Dostoevsky, whose name was surrounded with the halo of his former suffering' (Frank). This edition follows the publication of volume one only, by Eduard Prats, and the serialisation in the periodical Vremia, both also in 1862. Frank, Dostoevsky. The Stir of Liberation, p.140; Kilgour 279 (this edition).
Two volumes in one, octavo (204 x 135mm). With the half-titles (occasional spotting and soiling). Contemporary Russian quarter leather, spine with raised bands, tooled in blind and lettered directly in gilt (hinges and joints repaired). Provenance: indistinct inscription dated 24 November 1878 – M.I. Kairovskii (blind-stamp) – M.I. Khankova (signature, dated Tbilisi 1961).
The first complete edition of this early masterpiece by Dostoevsky, greatly appreciated by Tolstoy and which Lenin described as an 'unsurpassed work of Russian and world literature'. Dostoevsky's passionate description of life in a Siberian prison camp is based on his own experience; it 'provided the Russian public with its first, terrifying image of what lay ahead for those sentenced for a political crime [...] No writer was now more celebrated than Dostoevsky, whose name was surrounded with the halo of his former suffering' (Frank). This edition follows the publication of volume one only, by Eduard Prats, and the serialisation in the periodical Vremia, both also in 1862. Frank, Dostoevsky. The Stir of Liberation, p.140; Kilgour 279 (this edition).
Two volumes in one, octavo (204 x 135mm). With the half-titles (occasional spotting and soiling). Contemporary Russian quarter leather, spine with raised bands, tooled in blind and lettered directly in gilt (hinges and joints repaired). Provenance: indistinct inscription dated 24 November 1878 – M.I. Kairovskii (blind-stamp) – M.I. Khankova (signature, dated Tbilisi 1961).
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