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Encyclopedia > The House of the Dead

For the video game series, see The House of the Dead (video game). This article is about the game known as House of the Dead. ...


The House of the Dead is a novel published in 1862 by Russian author Fyodor Dostoevsky. DeFoes Robinson Crusoe, Newspaper edition published in 1719 A novel (from French nouvelle, new) is an extended fictional narrative in prose. ... 1862 was a common year starting on Wednesday (see link for calendar). ... Fyodor Dostoevsky. ...


1927-1928 Leos Janacek made an operatic version of this loosely knit novel (being rather an enumeration of seemingly unrelated facts and events connected to life in a Siberian prison, organised by "theme" rather than as a continuous story), with the title From the House of the Dead. Eventually it would be his last opera. 1927 was a common year starting on Saturday (link will take you to calendar). ... 1928 was a leap year starting on Sunday (link will take you to calendar). ... The title given to this article is incorrect due to technical limitations. ... From the House of the Dead (Z Mrtvého Domu in Czech), is an opera by Leoš Janáček. ... The foyer of Charles Garniers Opéra, Paris, opened 1875 Opera is an art form consisting of a dramatic stage performance set to music. ...


Dostoevsky himself spent four years in exile in a Siberian prison camp following his conviction for involvement in the Petrashevsky circle. This experience allows him to describe with great authenticity the conditions of life and characters of the convicts. The Petrashevsky Circle was a literary discussion group organized by Mikhail Vasilevich Petrashevsky (1819-1867). ...

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The novel portrays the life of convicts in a Siberian prison camp. The narrator, Aleksandr Petrovich Goryanchikov, has been sentenced to deportation and ten year's hard labour for the murder of his wife. Life in prison is particularly hard for Aleksandr Petrovich, since he is a nobleman and suffers the malice of the other prisoners, nearly all of whom belong to the peasantry. Gradually Goryanchikov overcomes his revulsion at his situation and his fellow convicts, undergoing a spiritual re-awakening that culminates with his release from the camp. Siberia Siberia (Russian: , common English transliterations: Sibir’, Sibir; from the Tatar for “sleeping land”) is a vast region of Russia and northern Kazakhstan constituting almost all of northern Asia. ... A spiritual awakening is a religious experience involving a realization or opening to a sacred dimension of reality. ...


See also: Russian literature Russian literature refers to the literature of Russia or its émigrés, and to the Russian-language literature of several independent nations once a part of what was historically Russia or the Soviet Union. ...


External links

  • Full text of The House of the Dead in the original Russian

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The House of the Dead (video game) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (1487 words)
House of the Dead is a first-person, light gun rail shooter arcade game released in 1996 by Sega, where the player assumes the role of a government agent who must shoot his way through an army of recently resurrected zombies.
Taking place in 1998, House of the Dead follows two government agents, Rogan and G, who are sent on an assignment to investigate a series of disappearances at a mansion/laboratory thought to be inhabited by Curien, a mad scientist, one notorious for his dangerous, inhumane experiments.
Wildly popular in the United States, House of the Dead was followed by House of the Dead 2 in 1998, the beat 'em up spin-off Zombie Revenge, and House of the Dead III in 2002.
House of the Dead - definition of House of the Dead in Encyclopedia (305 words)
House of the Dead is a first-person shooter arcade game released in 1998 by Sega, where the player assumes the role of a government agent who must shoot his way through an army of recently resurrected zombies.
Wildly popular in the United States, House of the Dead was followed by House of the Dead 2 in 2000, and House of the Dead III in 2003.
In 2003, a film version of House of the Dead was given limited theatrical release with the intent of becoming a cult film, serving as a prequel to the game (It was revealed that the last name of the protagonist is Curien, the villian in the first game).
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