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The House of the Dead was the only work by Dostoevsky that Leo Tolstoy revered. [8] He saw it as exalted religious art, inspired by deep faith and love of humanity. [ 9 ] [ 10 ] Turgenev , who was also not enamored of Dostoevsky's larger scale fiction (particularly Demons and Crime and Punishment ), described the bath-house scene from House of ...
Bradford is a scientist who hopes to develop a way to revive dead tissue. He works as an executioner for the state. Mary won't marry him unless he quits this profession. A blackmailer is killed in Mary's apartment and she is arrested and tried. Her teenaged sister Suzy is the key to the case.
The House of the Dead, also referred to as Curien Mansion, [2] is a horror-themed light gun shooter video game franchise created by Sega in 1996. Originally released in arcades, it utilizes a light gun on the platform, but can be played with standard controllers on consoles and a mouse or keyboard on home computers.
The House of the Dead, a Soviet Russian film based on the novel of the same name; The House of the Dead, an American anthology horror film also known as Alien Zone; House of the Dead, a 2003 film based on the video game "The House of the Dead", an episode of the Torchwood: The Lost Files radio play
Also apophthegm. A terse, pithy saying, akin to a proverb, maxim, or aphorism. aposiopesis A rhetorical device in which speech is broken off abruptly and the sentence is left unfinished. apostrophe A figure of speech in which a speaker breaks off from addressing the audience (e.g., in a play) and directs speech to a third party such as an opposing litigant or some other individual, sometimes ...
House of the Dead is a 2003 action horror film directed by Uwe Boll, from a screenplay by Dave Parker and Mark Altman. Based on The House of the Dead video game franchise, it stars Jonathan Cherry, Tyron Leitso, Clint Howard, Ona Grauer, Ellie Cornell, and Jürgen Prochnow. The film takes place on a fictional island infested by zombies, forcing ...
From the House of the Dead (Czech: Z mrtvého domu) is an opera in three acts by Leoš Janáček. The libretto was translated and adapted by the composer from the 1862 novel by Fyodor Dostoevsky . It was the composer's last opera, premiered on 12 April 1930 at the National Theatre Brno , two years after his death.
1. For the day of burial. Often accompanied with a lavish vignette showing a funerary procession. [1] A spell for going out into the day. [2] 1B. Recitation for the day of burial. [3] Spell for permitting the noble dead to descend to the Netherworld on the day of the interment. [4] 2. A spell for going out into the day and living after death ...