| Dead Souls Contributor(s): Nikolai, Gogol (Author) |
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ISBN: 1500801895 ISBN-13: 9781500801892 Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform OUR PRICE: $16.14 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: August 2014 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Fiction |
| Physical Information: 0.64" H x 8.5" W x 11.02" (1.57 lbs) 306 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher 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. |