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No worse than English prisons…

My work on nineteenth-century narratives about Russian imprisonment and exile has not only led me to read the classics that established the genre, notably Dostoevsky’s House of the Dead and Chekhov’s Sakhalin Island, but has also necessitated ploughing through many less celebrated works by both travellers and former prisoners and exiles. (See my previous post […]

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Posted by Sarah Young on April 16, 2014

https://sarahjyoung.com/site/2014/04/16/no-worse-than-english-prisons/