Dead Souls
- ISBN-10
- 1539834107
- ISBN-13
- 9781539834106
- Series
- Dead Souls
- Pages
- 306
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2016-10-31
- Publisher
- Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
- Authors
- Nikolai Gogol, D. j. Hogarth
Description
Since its publication in 1842, Dead Souls has been celebrated as a supremely realistic portrait of provincial Russian life and as a splendidly exaggerated tale; as a paean to the Russian spirit and as a remorseless satire of imperial Russian venality, vulgarity, and pomp. As Gogol's wily antihero, Chichikov, combs the back country wheeling and dealing for "dead souls"--deceased serfs who still represent money to anyone sharp enough to trade in them--we are introduced to a Dickensian cast of peasants, landowners, and conniving petty officials, few of whom can resist the seductive illogic of Chichikov's proposition.
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- 2017-01-15
- 222 pages
- Paperback
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