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Fyodor Dostoevsky's semi-autobiographical novel, first published in 1862, drawn from the four years he spent in a Siberian prison camp. It follows Alexander Goryanchikov through a year of hard labor, barracks life and the prisoners he meets, told as a loose collection of scenes rather than a plotted story. It is the least read of his major works in English but the one that most directly feeds the moral concerns of Crime and Punishment. Readers who want plot will find it slow; readers interested in Dostoevsky's life and the Russian penal system will find it essential.
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Reviewers treat it as a minor Dostoevsky next to the big novels but value it as raw source material for his later work. Most praise the prison portraits and the humane tone; the common complaint is that it reads as sketches rather than a story.